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What are ‘Complex Structures’ Anyway? - IELTS Energy Podcast 1246
Have you looked at the IELTS band descriptors? They can be hard to understand, even for natives. Today we'll do a deep dive into the grammar score, and you'll find out, in simple language, what the Examiner needs to hear for a 7+ in this...
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How Many Complex Sentences Means Grammar 7 - IELTS Energy Podcast 1231
What structures, exactly, does the examiner need to see to give you a 7 or higher on Grammar in IELTS Writing? Find out from an examiner today, so you know what to spend time on to get the scores you need on IELTS Writing.
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Complex Sentences
Complex Sentences explores complex sentences by writing complete sentences that contain one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses each.
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Using Commas: Introductory Element
Using Commas: Introductory Element shows how to use of a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence by adding commas where necessary to correct sentences.
All Ears English
1869 - Things Your Teachers Never Taught You: English Grammar for Intonation
Before hearing today's episode, you may not have realized that grammar can boost your intonation. Don't miss this. Today you'll learn how to draw interest with 3 grammar structures for complex sentences which can create life-changing...
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Main Sentence Types
Main Sentence Types practices identifying the three main sentence types by deciding if sentences are simple, compound, or complex.
Learn German with Herr Antrim
When to Use "zu" with German Infinitive Clauses
Learn when to add zu to infinitive clauses in German. Why do anstatt and um require zu, but modal verbs and a few other verbs don’t? How do these kinds of clauses differ from relative clauses with dass? In this video Herr Antrim explains...
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Combining Sentences
Join us today as we learn how to combine simple sentences into longer, complex sentences. In this video, we review how to use dependent clauses, conjunctions, and appositives to help piece together short sentences into a looonngg, smooth...
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Sentences, Phrases, and Clauses
You will differentiate between sentences, phrases, and clauses.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
The student will cover dependent and independent clauses and their functions within a sentence by reviewing definitions and looking at examples.
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Dependent Clauses
Dependent Clauses identifies and defines various types of clauses by reading sentences that contain noun, relative, and adverbial clauses.
Englishing
Sentence Variation - A Writing Guide for Sentence Structure
Sentence variety reduces repetition in a piece of writing and emphasizes important points in the text. Sentence variety can be introduced to the beginning of sentences by starting a sentence with an adverb, starting a sentence with a...
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Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students to identify the different sentence structures: simple, compound and complex sentences.
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Simple, Compound Complex Sentences #englishgrammar
There are three types of sentence structures. Simple, compound and complex.
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Transformation of Sentences: Compound to Complex
In this lesson, we review what compound sentences and complex sentences are, and we learn how to change from compound to complex.
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Complex Sentences | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students to identify and write complex sentences. Lesson includes worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #1) before starting the lesson.
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Compound-Complex Sentences | Learning English
Learn how to identify compound-complex sentences and start using them in your own writing. Good writers use a variety of sentence structures to make their writing more engaging.
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Complex sentences in #englishgrammar #shorts
Complex sentences are made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and is a completed thought. A dependent clause has a subject, a verb, but is not a completed thought.
Professor Dave Explains
Indirect Speech in Italian: Il Discorso Indiretto
What is il discorso indiretto, or indirect speech? This is something we would use when wanting to report what was said by someone else. This can actually get quite complicated depending on the tenses involved, so let's go through as many...
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Subjunctive and the Sequence of Tenses in Italian: Concordanza dei Tempi
Subjunctive tenses.
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Noun Clauses: Advanced English Grammar | A Noun Clause is a Part of Speech Classed as a Noun
A subordinate or dependent clause that acts as a noun is called a noun (or substantive) clause. When a simple noun is not enough to represent a person, place, thing, or idea, we use a noun clause.
A noun clause usually begins with...
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Present Subjunctive Tense in Italian: Congiuntivo Presente
Subjunctive tenses.
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Adjective Clauses: An Adjective Clause is a Part of Speech Classed as an Adjective
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Adjective clauses will always begin with...
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English Punctuation: Dependent Clauses and Commas continued
Learn how to use commas for fun and profit, and how to make colons work for you. We continue looking at pauses in a sentence, with a focus on dependent clauses and how to support them. This is part 1 in the series: 'English Punctuation...