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Learning English from the News

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The Pronunciation of the Word Tear

The word we're looking at is tears into. This is connected to violence and force, yes. So if someone tears into you, it's quite an aggressive form of criticism. If you watch professional sports, sometimes you see the team manager or coach really tearing into the referee. It means criticise heavily with shouting and pointing. And so this headline is saying that donald trump is very critical of the fbi. He thinks they have double standards. That means they treat him differently to his political opponents. I mean, what kind of language is this where you can have this ridiculous confusion? Ah, ok. We've got a word about the pronunciation of this word. The spelling is the

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