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GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY

Can you use a

full range of How many
grammatical
complex
grammatical mistakes do
you make?
structures?

COMPLEX GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES

• different verb tenses

• passive voice (The museum was built in the 1970s.)

• modal verbs (I have to go. They should know about it.)

• gerunds (Watching telly is my favourite pastime.)

• comparisons (My sister is taller than me. This was the most challenging
task.)

• different sentence structures

The unemployment level went up.

There was a rise in the unemployment level.
It was the unemployment level that went up, not the average salaries.

• complex sentences (because, although, when, despite, etc.)

• conditional sentences (I’ll come tomorrow if it doesn’t rain.

If I were you, I wouldn’t go there.)

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GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS

Band Requirements

• you use a full range of structures naturally

up • you make few/no mistakes

• you use a range of complex structures

7 • many sentences are correct
• some grammatical mistakes persist

• you use very simple grammar and repeat the same structures
down • you often make mistakes
• your grammatical mistakes make it difficult to understand you

3 PILLARS OF A STRONG GRAMMAR SCORE

1. 2.
3.
Don’t try to show Concentrate on
Answer in the
off. Speak what you want to
correct tense
naturally say

Use the same tense in your short answer

Do you often go there? I do / I don’t

Would you go there? I would / I wouldn’t

Will you go there? I will / I won’t