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Clauses 2
- July 1, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE
Continuing from Part 1 of the article on clauses: Let us now look at complex sentences. A complex sentence is one that has a Main (or independent) clause (an independent clause is something that can form sentences on their own and are finite) along with subordinate (or dependent) clauses (These cannot form sentences on their
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Importance of variety
- June 26, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
Understanding how sentences work is very important. For you to be able to do that, you will have to know how to construct them. This short quiz will present you with 8 different sentences. Try and reconstruct those sentences using the word in bold. You might have to use phrases and idiomatic expressions where necessary.
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Clauses
- June 25, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, TOEFL
If you want to read better, you will absolutely need to understand how a sentence works. This will allow us to break a sentence down into easily understandable pieces. Each of these bite-sized pieces is called a clause. A clause is the basic unit of grammar. Usually, a main clause is made up of a
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Their | There | They’re
- June 20, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE, TOEFL
We at First Academy have the fortune of learning on the job. As teachers of English, we are naturally among the first to encounter the most common mistakes people make and encounter them on a regular basis. The one mistake that usually takes the cake is the difficulty most people face in understanding the difference
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Using Idioms – Quiz
- June 19, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
The only problem with my sister is that she is always splitting hairs. Does it mean that she’s a hair dresser? Or does her hair have split ends, and that she needs to visit a salon or a hairdresser? Not really. Expressions of this kind have become part of everyday English, and have naturally filtered
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10 Commonly Used Idioms – June 2019
- June 17, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE
This is going to be an article that we are going to come back to once every two months are so. In this series, we will be looking at idioms that have appeared in newspapers and articles. This means two things – these idioms are commonly used and indicate a fluency in language, the second,
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20 Academic Expressions – Vocabulary Resource
- June 13, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE, TOEFL
Here are 20 Expressions and words that you need to know to ace you exam. Looking for that elusive 320 in GRE or that perfect 9 band in IELTS? Or just want that extra 20 points for immigration? Here are 20 expressions that will take you to your dream. There are a few words and
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Vocabulary Building Passage – 5
- June 12, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE
Read this article about Vancouver. A city in Canada. “Vancouver is a wonder city,” Canadian author Stephen Leacock once wrote. “It has the combined excellence of nature’s gift and man’s handiwork.” Today this statement rings truer than ever. The glittering glass metropolis – set against temperate rainforest, ocean inlets, and the Coast Mountains of British
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The Understanding Series – Part 2 – Another vs. Other
- May 10, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
In the second part of the series, we will look at use of Another and Other, and along the way also take a look at use of Articles. Most of us already know that A and An are articles to indicate non specific nouns, while the is used for specific nouns. Extending from this, Another
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The Understanding Series – Part 1
- May 8, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, TOEFL
You are here ins all probability because of two reasons. You are taking an English test, or you are looking to improve your English. If you are taking an English test, you will invariably have to deal with sentences. In this installment of the Understanding Series – we will look at how to figure a
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