Be or Not to Be
Many languages use the verb ‘have’ to express age. In English we use the auxiliary verb ‘be’. ✘ I have 32✔ I am 32. We don’t say: ‘I am 32 years’.We say: ‘I’m 32’ or ‘I am 32 years old’. ✘ I have cold.✔ I am cold.I am cold = …
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Punctuation for IELTS
Ah, the punctuation. Of all the grammar in IELTS writing, this one is perhaps the most abused and misused. With a lot of rules, many will easily get confused. We shall be dealing with the best IELTS Punctuation rules for writing today. It is very common for Nepalese students that they focus just a little on …
Formal vs Informal Writing Style: Which One to Use?
Since IELTS papers are checked and marked by university people, you are supposed to make your style purely academic. To achieve this we will choose formal style and formal vocabulary. To do this, you will need to focus on using: nominalisation passive voice academic vocabulary. Nominalisation In academic writing, nouns are often used …
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These Sentence Structures Impress Examiners for Band 7+ Score
According to IELTS examiner, Barbara Adama, a friend of mine working for British Council, “One of the most common weaknesses which I find in essays of many candidates is that most of the sentences are too short or too basic”. In your essay, examiner will be looking for sentence variation when they grade you for …
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Use Qualifiers for Better Score
You should know the effective language to talk about the probability of something or the timescales in which things happen. It is easy to include some of the qualifiers in your ideas, to show that you have thought about the probability and/or timescales of the events. Some of the straight forward ways are;- ultimately (= eventually, finally) …
Using Qualifiers for Better Score
You should know the effective language to talk about the probability of something or the timescales in which things happen. It is easy to include some of the qualifiers in your ideas, to show that you have thought about the probability and/or timescales of the events. Some of the straight forward ways are;- ultimately (= eventually, finally) …
Emphatic Sentence Structures
This is another smart and fast way to give an impression over the control of your grammar. I’ve seen just a few students using this technique in their answer. Sometime to emphasize and sometime, perhaps to contradict what someone else has said or for dramatic effect, we use emphatic sentence …
Tense Uses
If you are up for the IELTS test, you have enough knowledge about the correct use of tense, let me assume. Among all the varieties of grammatical range you used for your IELTS with a big hope to score 7, a simple tense mistake can change the whole story. Believe …
Punctuation for IELTS
Ah, the punctuation. Of all the grammar in IELTS writing, this one is perhaps the most abused and misused. With a lot of rules, many will easily get confused. We shall be dealing with the best IELTS Punctuation rules for writing today. It is very common for Nepalese students that they focus …
If Conditional in IELTS
Conditional structures are used to talk about a condition, especially in result, consequence, problem,… and solution. Conditionals are complex sentences, which consist of an if-clause, followed by a main clause. This gives examiner an impression that you can use complex sentence structure in your answers. This grammatical structure is not …