What is the meaning of “Leaving aside the philosophical question of whether anyone should have to breathe someone else’s cigarette smoke, the report suggests that the smoke experienced by many people in their daily lives is enough to produce substantial adverse effects on a person’s heart and lungs.”? Recently I’ve been doing IELTS reading exercises … Read more
I have been taking IELTS mock exams recently on a website. (The tests are probably taken from Cambridge textbooks). So I have 2 points I may disagree with in the Reading section. I had to choose whether certain statements TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN Question 19 statement says China has more citrus pests than any … Read more
I’m reading a key for a writing exam, and it says, Historians in the future may look back on our time and wonder why we allowed such a dangerous and inefficient form of transportation to persist unchecked. And that sounds weird to me because “transportation” is an object that can not act on its own. … Read more
I’ve read this, and the answer states we can omit relative clause heads when the verb that follows them is a present participle Can we really say: “The baby sleeping is Mike’s son” instead of saying: “The baby who is sleeping is Mike’s son.”? Answer I think it’s more common to say “the sleeping baby”. … Read more
I have just finished a practice test for Ielts, and I looked at the key. There is a question in listening part asking about what the speaker said for a course requirement, the exam must be completed by using NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS The question number 26 is what I want to ask about. … Read more
I have just finished a practice test for Ielts, and I looked at the key. There is a question in listening part asking about what the speaker said for a course requirement. The question number 27 is what I want to ask about. It requires NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. The speaker said: “Yes, that’s … Read more
Today, when I was reading some meme on 9gag, I saw a phrase, and I tried rephrasing it in my head, but it went confusing and gave me this question in return 🙁 The never spoken rules of using escalators. The never spoken rules of escalators using. The never spoken rules of escalators usage. The … Read more
When we compare numbers of people, we can use the phrases: “The highest/lowest number of people was” “The biggest/smallest number of people was” “The most/least people were” That the word “lowest” is an antonym for the word “highest”. What is an antonym of the word “largest” when we compare numbers of people? “The **largest/_________ number … Read more
I’m not a native speaker, and my teacher taught me to use "the biggest number of . . ." when comparing amounts of some things, but I’ve checked it in google which seems like "the largest, the greatest, the highest, and even the most number of. . ." are actually used more often. 1. Which … Read more
I downloaded the old ielts test and its keys, one of the questions asked you to describe a bar chart, and there were 3 different pieces of data given on the chart: Cars owners Internet users Apartment renters In its key for this question, there was a line which I thought it was weird. The … Read more
