Praise more. Complain less.

Got it? That’s a piece of good advice! 😉

We’ve watched a German comedy in which a wife kept whining because she didn’t want her husband to relax and sit around doing nothing. At some point, she tells him to stop whining at her, although she was the one who was actually whining. Anyway, I think there’s a good message below, for this kind of whining attitude. Hehe… What do you think?

The true worth of your travels…

Do you know what worth means?

Worth as a noun, means how good or useful something is or how important it is to people [= value]:

The new computer system has already proved its worth.

And how much money something is worth [= value]:

It is difficult to estimate the current worth of the company.

Worth as a preposition, is only used after verbs such as be, seem, look. It means having a particular value, especially in money:

A: I wonder how much the house is worth?

B: About half a million, probably.

To be worth doing something is a common expression. It means that something is useful or important enough to do:

A: I haven’t had a reply to my email to JaneIs it worth phoning her, do you think? (Would it be useful to phone her?)

B: You could try, I suppose.

We decided it wasn’t worth going all the way to London to buy books we could get on the Internet.

To be worth it means ‘to be of reasonable or good value for the price:

A business class ticket cost £2,000, but it was worth it for such a long flight. It was very comfortable

Check tomorrow’s blog post for the words travel and trip. 😉

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/gramatica/gramatica-britanica/worth-or-worthwhile