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Writing Better Mails
- October 15, 2020
- Category: Duolingo English Test, IELTS, OET, PTE, TOEFL
Emails have long become the de-facto form of communication. Thanks to this, a volume of email is sent and received. This makes it imperative for communication over emails to be clear, precise, and unequivocal (meaning, there is only one way of understanding something) Here are some tips that will help you send better letters/emails: 1.
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idioms-about-hands
- August 13, 2020
- Category: Duolingo English Test, General Interest, GRE, IELTS, PTE, SAT, TOEFL
The phone buzzed. It was picked up. I picked it up, and I saw a message from one of the many, ordinary, routine, right-handed dudely telling me today is the day we celebrate left-handedness. Well, I did not know if it is a tongue-in-cheek thing. But, I decided that it did not matter. Though people
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There, Their, and They’re
- February 4, 2020
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, 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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Three tips for 8 band in Speaking
- October 17, 2019
- Category: IELTS, PTE
Getting a 7 band in speaking is very easy. Start with these 3 easy tips and ace the test. These are tips that will work for everyone, and work quickly. If you are looking for a great score in IELTS, you will need to first understand how IELTS is evaluated. IELTS makes this really easy.
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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,
