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Writing skills
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1Describing numbers"Amount" is used with uncountable nouns
(e.g. The chart shows the amount of traffic)
"Numbers" is used with countable nouns
"Per cent" is always used with a number
(e.g. According to the graph, five per cent of all government spending was on health)
"Percentage" is used on it own without a number
(e.g. The chart shows the percentage of men playing piano) - 2Describing number change"There was an increase of 59% between 1900 and 1950"
"There was an increase in obesity between 1900 and 1950" - 3ParaphraseNOW
- Current
- Existing
- At present
AFTER
- Proposed
- Future
- Planned
- Expected
- Anticipated
- Prospective - 4Verbs- Enlarge
- Widen
- Divide
- Replace
- Move
- Convert
- Relocate
- Demolish
- Renovate
- Extend
- Develop
- Modify - 5Colloquialism- Environmental damage
- Climate change
- Expenses associated with travel
- Local people have more money to spend
- Graffiti or littering
- Infrastructure improves
- Erosion from water sports
- Boost to the economy (boost = estímulo)
- Places I would like to visit
- Erosion of local culture and customs
- Increased jobs
- Damage to historical monuments
- Local government may have more money to spend on environment - 6Coordinating conjunctionsJoin sentence elements that are the same. They can join words, phrases and clauses
- For
- And
- Nor
- But
- Or
- Yet
- So - 7Subordinating conjunctionsJoin dependent clauses to independent clauses
- After
- Allthough
- As
- As if
- As long as
- As much as
- As soon as
- As though
- Because
- Before
- By the time
- Even if
- Even though
- If
- In order that
- In case
- Lest
-Once
- Only if
- Provided that
- Since
- So that
- Than
- That
- Though
- Till
- Unless
- Until
- When
- Whenever
- Where
- Wherever
- While
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- Flashcards on Writing skills, created by amanda_xdc on 16/01/2015.
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- amanda_xdc · Jan 2015
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