Share Unreal Past An unreal past structure is one that considers impossible situations. While conditional forms are the most obvious, there are also a number of other ways we can talk about such scenarios. We’ll take a look here at the variety of forms we can use and how we use them. Conditional Forms While …
Share Nominalisations: Other words as nouns Nominalisation describes a word formation in which a verb (or other part of speech) is used as (or transformed into) a noun. We’ll take a look at why we use them and why these noun forms can be useful in formal writing. Explanation When we use verb forms it makes …
Share Using Inversion Inversion is a way of changing the information placed at the beginning of a sentence and in this post we will looked at a variety of ways how we can use inversion. Because it changes the focus on information it can be a very good way of emphasizing details. It’s also considered …
Share The Cambridge Advanced or CAE speaking exam is evaluated under a number of categories. Here we’ll take a look at what these categories are and how to explain the speaking scores for each of the categories. Speaking Scoring Categories The first thing to point out about all of the Cambridge exams is that the …
Share Emphasising Ideas As we’ve said in other posts on this theme we always need to provide justifications for our ideas. Here we will look at the effect of using expressions that emphasize information. We consider the use of emphasis expressions in a number of ways – To clarify an opinion that we have …
Share Joining Ideas – Cause & Reason One of the things we’re constantly expected to do when we write is to provide justifications for our ideas. We can also use other information to provide explanations and support to our opinions. These come under a number of headings. We consider the cause of what we are …
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Share What are Participles? A participle is a verb form that is either used as an adjective or as part of a verb. There are two forms, an –ing form and an -ed form. We also know them as the present and past participles. Here we’ll take a look at how participles can be …