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Unit 4: Starting and finishing emails

How should you begin and finish an email message to someone you don't know? Find out here!

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Grammar & vocabulary

Question forms & subject/object questions

To form yes/no questions where there is an auxiliary verb or a modal verb, we invert the word order of a positive sentence.

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Business and work

Trend analysis

Listen to an interview with a social affairs commentator on changes in patterns of working.

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IELTS

Not a job interview

IELTS interview is different from a job interview. Be sure to showcase your English ability, not your job qualification.

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17 October, 2017 - 11:10

Hello SonuKumar, As far as I know, Diwali is celebrated in many countries around the world. Certainly in the UK it is an important celebration and there is an article on it on LearnEnglish Teens. I'...

from: Pronouns

17 October, 2017 - 11:10

Hi Petals, 'relatively' isn't usually used to compare two explicit people or objects -- please see the example sentences in the dictionary entry. I'm not sure I understand what you want to...

from: comparative adverbs

17 October, 2017 - 10:10

Hello rosario, I'm sorry! Now I understand what you're asking. I understand both sentences to mean the same thing, but the first one is better in terms of the grammar. This is because 'would' is...

from: Modal verbs