Grammatical range in essays

Extend your range with mixed and inverted conditionals, reporting passives, advanced relative and participle clauses and inversion, and learn the accuracy trap in each so that range raises your score instead of lowering it.

Level C1 30 min5 exercisesLesson 9 of 12 in Writing C1

Trains: IELTS Writing Task 2, IELTS Writing Task 1 (Academic), TOEIC Writing – Write an opinion essay

What you'll learn

Use mixed and inverted conditionals to link past causes, present results and possible futures
Report general views objectively with passive and reporting-passive structures
Add detail concisely with prepositional and quantifier relative clauses and perfect or passive participle clauses
Use inversion after negative and limiting adverbials for emphasis, accurately and sparingly

Lesson content

11 steps · 5 exercises · 30 min total

1. Warm-up2 questions
2. LearnThe skill and the strategy
3. ModelSee how it's done
4. Practice 1Accurate or not?
5. Practice 2Transform the sentence
6. Practice 3Complete the sentences
7. Practice 4Build an emphatic sentence
8. Practice 5Your turn: range with control
9. Exam tips3 tips
10. Key vocabulary11 words
11. SummaryReview and finish

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