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Five ways to improve essays

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Lesson 1

Five essay writing tips

hello everyone thank you for joining me again and welcome to any new viewers this is to the point english with ben i'm ben and in this video i'm going to give you five tips that...

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Lesson 2

Combine short sentences

as i said a lot of my students tend to form quite basic sentences in their writings it could be a paragraph with five six or even seven short basic sentences and what you need t...

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Lesson 3

Choose linking words carefully

social media yet in this context is a synonym of but if you think the sentence is too basic with but use yeah but sometimes it's okay to use words like and but because so for or...

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Lesson 4

Use relative clauses

that it's not so complicated and quite simple to add to your essays or your reports or your articles to to make it more advanced and more sophisticated so an example of a non-de...

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Lesson 5

Understand inversion

information it's necessary for the sentence to make sense so let's look at number three now inversion now inversion is a grammar area that we don't really use that much in spoke...

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Lesson 6

Add inversion to essays

the verb and the subject change places they invert again check out my video for much more detailed explanation than that but if you can use one example of inversion in your essa...

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Lesson 7

Vary sentence structures

the same information it's expressed in a different way so again the examiners are looking for that type of thing something which can demonstrate to them that you understand and...

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Lesson 8

Use impersonal reporting structures

believe this you imagine if you're writing an essay or a report or whatever that you know it's some an expert so scientists are probably the the ones that believe this so you do...

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Lesson 9

Write with natural flow

going to read it i correct dozens and dozens of these uh compositions of my students every month and some just are nice to read they're pleasant to read because they flow in a n...

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Lesson 10

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Full video: How to Write Better Essays! 5 tips - C1 Advanced & C2 Proficiency Cambridge English exam preparation

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