Thursday, October 10, 2024

5 Key Grammar Rules for IELTS

In this lesson we'll look at 5 key grammar rules for IELTS that will help to ensure you don't make easily avoidable errors in your writing and speaking. During your exam, you’ll get scored on various...

How To Write Professional and Effective Business Documents

Professional and effective business documents should be communicated clearly, concisely, and purposefully, ensuring that the content is well-organized, audience-focused, and error-free. This is essential in establishing credibility. Most companies hire in-house lawyers to draft...

Improve Fluency with Understatement | Mary’s English Blog

Greetings Advanced English learners! Today, I am looking at how you can improve your fluency with a simple technique and you can start today. Yes, today! Ready? Let’s start. Have a look at the painting below....

Understanding Complex Sentences and Compound Sentences in English

Hello, fellow writers and language enthusiasts! Today, I want to delve into the fascinating world of complex sentences and compound sentences in the English language. These two concepts play a vital role in sentence...

Forgetting words when speaking English? Let’s fix it! 

In my online IELTS Speaking GOLD course, students may watch a lesson, study 10 words from that lesson, and finally try to have a conversation in the speaking practice rooms, but they sometimes say,I...

Reading in English problems and solutions

Reading is one of the most useful things to do in a foreign language, especially for learning vocabulary such as common collocation, and for getting a feel for correct grammar. However, reading is often...

Problematic question on possessive ‘his’ in the 2024 Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling paper

Question 40 on the 2024 Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling paper reads as follows: Before you read on, what do you think is the answer? You may not have been sure about his, but you’re...

How To Use Conditionals In English

How to use conditionals in English? This question is asked by many English learning students. The truth is that ESL students, even at an advanced English level, still have issues with using conditional tenses...