aubry we're doing a bonus i love bonuses it's a little present a little extra gift
happy holidays and not only that we're talking about grammar in this bonus guys and we know that
is something students ask for all the time and we want to help you with your grammar in the right
ways we talk a lot about the wrong ways to focus on grammar right and being distracted by grammar
um how do students distract themselves in the wrong way with you if your focus is too heavily
on grammar mistakes you might be missing really good opportunities to improve your other scores
you need to really be familiar with you know what does it take to score highly in task response task
achievement cohesion coherence and if your focus is all on grammar vocabulary and you
ignore those other scores you cannot score higher than a six on a it's just impossible
exactly exactly so um we recognize that you guys need and want to improve your grammar and like i
said we want to help you do this in the correct way so that's why lindsay and i actually are
hosting an open conversation club it's free it is grammar and speaking skills for professionals
but hey it's also for ielts guys you still need grammar um in that class like i said
it's free it's interactive it's live with me and lindsay you're going to learn about a verb tense
that textbooks do not explain correctly and we're going to tell you how natives actually use it in
the real world so before aubrey and i teach you some other great grammar for ielts guys
i want to tell you to go to all ears english dot com slash open grab your spot for this free live
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all right so aubry what are we teaching our students today so we're seeing a lot in the
ielts essays that we're giving feedback on and we also hear this in ielts speaking of course
where students will use the wrong verb form for a word and it often happens if you're taking a
noun or an adjective and maybe trying to turn it into a verb which i totally get because so many
words in english are both right are can be used as a so many verb so i can understand increase
plant these are all nouns and verbs right um english is so hard you guys and we we really
want to make it not hard for you um so exactly um trying to guess at a word form is very risky right
trying to take a verb and make it an adjective or take a verb and make it an adverb taken down and
make it an adjective like it's it's difficult sometimes because there are so many exceptions
in english so we're going to talk about two mistakes we see students make a lot in guessing
word form so aubrey what is the the first example yesterday so i've seen a student write global
warming will detriment the planet and you can see what they're going for and this is a high-level
word to say that something is detrimental or that it is a detriment so there you have the adjective
detrimental and the noun that it's a detriment but you cannot we can't use this as a verb this is one
of those words can't just take it and use it as a verb to say that it will detriment something
by making it worse somehow that's incorrect grammar it will pull down your score and it's
really hurting a potentially high vocabulary score because if you use it correctly to say something
is detrimental that's really high level vocabulary so you want to use this right i know that's what
i was going to say exactly the same thing i had the same thought as you like what a shame that is
because like it's such a great vocabulary word and there's so much potential um and to use it
in the wrong word form then like why you just you don't get any points for effort there um
okay um another uh example of a very common mistake we see ielts students making with
word form is especially in ielts task one but sometimes task two so dramatic dramatic is an
adjective right and the adverb we see students actually no students try to make it like an extra
adjective by saying dramatical maybe that so i'm not sure exactly sometimes they're trying to go
for an adjective and sometimes they're trying to make it into an adverb but regardless dramatical
is not a word i could see students they've seen the adverb dramatically and they're just dropping
right l-y and thinking oh without the l-y yeah that's the adjective dramatical no that word does
exist not a word not a word you guys so dramatic is the adjective dramatically is the adverb um
all right guys so those are two common mistakes that now you will not make in your ielts speaking
and writing and four to discover this mystery verb tense that will greatly improve your english guys
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yeah guys we're it's not a webinar this is a live class we want to talk to you guys a lot
this year so that's what we're doing all right i wish you were going to be there next time next
time i think it sounds so fun i know a lot more podcasts are doing like live shows and stuff and
this is even smarter it's even better to make it like something really helpful for you guys
a live grammar and speaking class like that's just the best i'm so excited for it
it's gonna be great it's gonna be great all right aubry i'll see you in the next uh the next bye you