IELTS and academic caution vocabulary
The language of academic caution can be used in IELTS to improve the coherenceof your writing and speaking. Here are some basic variations:
numberfrequencyprobability
somesometimesmaymostusual/usuallymightmany/muchnormallycoulda lot ofgenerally/in generallikely/likelihoodseveralon the wholepossible/possiblya few/a littletendprobable/probablyperhaps/maybe
Grammatical problems
Please note this common mistake made with some/many/few/most
some peoplesome of the peoplesome of people
correct to talk about people in generalcorrect to talk about a particular group of peopleincorrect
Variations - word families
To use these words well, you need to be able to use the different forms of thewords. Here are just two examples
Possible
possiblepossibly
It is possible that the city willThe city could possibly grow
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