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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 proposing. …
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 conditional …
Nominalisations A nominalisation is 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 the language more …
Prefix and Suffix Types We use a prefix at the beginning of the word to change the meaning and a suffix at the end of a word when we often use them to change the type of word. Understanding when to use prefixes and suffixes correctly are an important part of doing the word formation …
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Rather & Prefer In this post we will look at the different grammar of would rather and prefer and the way we use each of them. They are similar to each other and we can use both of them for the same type of idea. Explanation Would rather has the same meaning as would prefer but the …
What is it? The Use of English Part 2 is where you need to put a single word into each gap. In this post we’ll look at ways you can do this gap fill exercise The exercise This is what the exercise looks like. Instructions Example answer A text with 8 gaps PART 2 For questions 9-15, …
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What are they? In English we often use a substitute or reference word so that we don’t repeat the original word. Some of the commonest of these words are pronouns In this post we’ll look at how these reference words are used to organise a text. How we use reference words As we said …
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