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IELTS CUE CARDS JANUARY-APRIL 2021. “Describe your first day at school”.

Posted: March 21, 2021 at 8:32 pm / CUE CARDS, Eng Grammar, IELTS, IELTS CUE CARD 2021, IELTS Reading, Spoken English, Study Abroad, Vocabulary

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Perfunctory – Word of the Day

Posted: January 18, 2021 at 11:10 am / Eng Grammar, Spoken English, Vocabulary

Perfunctory – Word of the Day Meaning: Lacking in interest or effortSuperficial or routine Origin: Perfunctory is a word whose […]

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Cerulean – Word of the Day

Posted: January 11, 2021 at 10:38 am / Eng Grammar, IELTS, Spoken English, Vocabulary

Cerulean – Word of the Day Meaning: A deep sky-blue colour. Origin: This word dates back to the mid 17th […]

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Fetid – Word of the day

Posted: January 4, 2021 at 2:32 pm / Eng Grammar, Spoken English, Vocabulary

Meaning: [adj]: smelling extremely unpleasant. malodorous, stinking, fetid, noisome, putrid, rank, fusty, musty mean bad-smelling. malodorous may range from the unpleasant to the […]

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Garrulous – Word of the day

Posted: January 4, 2021 at 2:30 pm / Eng Grammar, Spoken English, Vocabulary

Meaning: [adj]: excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. History: Dates back to the 1600s. Has Latin origin. Greek origin and Irish […]

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Homophones (Commonly Confused Words): Knob vs nob

Posted: September 4, 2019 at 9:46 am / Eng Grammar

Knob and nob are commonly confused words that are pronounced in the same way when spoken aloud but are spelled differently and mean […]

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Learn Idioms

Posted: September 4, 2019 at 8:10 am / Eng Grammar

An idiom is a word or phrase whose meaning can’t be understood outside its cultural context. These expressions are usually figurative and […]

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Tenses: Future Perfect Continuous Formation and Usage

Posted: August 27, 2019 at 3:13 pm / Eng Grammar

Structure of future perfect continuous (subject + will + have + been + verb+ing) Now, let’s discuss how to use […]

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Fluency and Cohesion

Posted: June 23, 2019 at 10:07 am / Eng Grammar

Connectives are words or phrases that connect and relate sentences and paragraphs. They help to build the logical flow of ideas […]

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Correct usage of Word and Sentence Stress

Posted: June 23, 2019 at 10:01 am / Eng Grammar

One of the four areas that you’ll receive a grade for is pronunciation; in fact, pronunciation accounts for 25% of […]

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Basic Noun Groups

Posted: May 22, 2019 at 9:54 am / Eng Grammar

◆COMMON NOUNS◆ These refer to indefinite objects, persons or places and are generic names. They don’t begin with a Capital letter unless used […]

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Which is grammatically correct: “compare to” or “compare with”?

Posted: May 3, 2019 at 3:52 pm / Eng Grammar

Both are correct. Always remember — Compare with — Difference between similar things. Compare to — Resemblance between different things. Compare with is used to bring out the differences between similar entities. For […]

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