Few vs A Few vs Some
I was marking some IELTS essays this morning when I came across a mistake that one of my students...
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Category: Grammar
How to Use Cohesive Devices Effectively for IELTS Writing
I was looking through several IELTS Facebook groups recently and I noticed that some bad advice...
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Is the Oxford Comma Necessary for IELTS?
I run an IELTS writing correction service and every day I mark 10 or 15 different essays by...
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IELTS Mistakes: The Comma Splice
One of the reasons why IELTS writing is so much more difficult than the others parts of the exam...
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How to Learn Prepositions
Prepositions can be really difficult to learn. Just look at this short conversation: SALLY: What...
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Do I Need to Use Idioms for IELTS?
If you were to look at all the most popular IELTS websites and Facebook Pages, you’d be...
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The Importance of Grammar for IELTS
When learning English, students often focus on learning vocabulary. This is logical because...
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Essential IELTS Grammar: Commas
Writing is difficult, and that’s why IELTS candidates usually get a lower score for this...
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Omitting Relative Pronouns
Adjective clauses, which are also known as relative clauses, give extra information about a noun...
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Participle Clauses
Participle clauses are a kind of adverbial clause in that they give extra information (such as...
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Should you use the Passive Voice for IELTS?
Students often ask me about the passive voice and whether or not they should use the passive voice...
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Essential IELTS Grammar: Sentence Types
There are four types of sentence in English: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. In...
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