Instead of trusting the grammar 'rules' that you find in a book, why not do your own investigating to see exactly how a word or phrase is used by native English speakers?
This is what I was encouraging you to do in yesterday's lesson about the word "alike". Instead of explaining the grammar rules, I simply showed you some correct sentences that contained the word. I gave you a 'model' or 'pattern' that you can use to make your own sentences.
Click here to see another example of a lesson in which I used 'model' sentences instead of rules to show how a word is used.
my brother and i will dress alike on new year night.
is it correct sir?
Posted by: junaid khan | October 15, 2017 at 12:11
I went to a party today and talked about my new vocabulary 'alike'. It is good habit to present my new word to friends or colleagues. However, many of my Australian friends, about 20 Australians have never used ' alike ' in conversation and especially the sentences you gave us in last blog lesson. I realised that IELTS candidates must know more vocabularies than the general conversation level with native speakers.
Posted by: Tae Verrall | October 15, 2017 at 12:58
Dear Simon,
I really need your help regarding ideas for this task https://vi.scribd.com/document/345282547/Collins-Ielts-Cutted
Thanks a lot, Sir
Posted by: Hoai | October 16, 2017 at 02:56
Dear Simon，
I found it's a good way to understand grammar by using sentences as example,it's easy to understand,I will continue to follow your blog which gives me a lot of help,many thanks for you.
Posted by: Alice Zheng | October 16, 2017 at 10:09