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THE ENGLISH BUREAU BY ALEXANDER MARKHAM

Welcome to the English Bureau – English for Academic IELTS, Advanced and Business.

This site provides you with a guide to advanced grammar, vocabulary and Academic IELTS exam techniques.senior lifestyle

I’m Alexander Markham, a qualified Cambridge English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) tutor.

I have many years of experience in teaching Academic IELTS and Advanced & Business English to students and in professional roles working around the world.

 

 

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BRITISH ENGLISH IS A MINORITY DIALECT
Why is a dialect spoken by just 2% of the UK population considered to be standard British English? Most people
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8 BOGUS GRAMMAR RULES
Unlike most other languages, English has no single organisation to manage the grammar rules. Into this gaping hole stepped the
ielts preositions
USING PREPOSITIONS FOR IELTS
We use prepositions to show a relationship or a connection between nouns and pronouns. Prepositions are therefore typically followed by a
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MODAL VERBS FOR IELTS
Modal Verbs are auxiliary or helping verbs that support the main verb and are used to express concepts such as
question tags
HOW TO USE QUESTION TAGS IN IELTS SPEAKING
Question tags are very common and mainly used in spoken English. They turn a statement into a question. They are
relative clauses
RELATIVE CLAUSES, THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
Relative clauses are used to tell us more about the people and things or to make it clear who or
discourse markers
DISCOURSE MARKERS – LINKING WORDS
Discourse markers are words or expressions that link, manage and help to organise sentences. They connect what is written or
future in the past
FUTURE IN THE PAST
The future in the past is used to refer to something that was the future at some time in the
phrasal verbs
HOW TO USE PHRASAL VERBS
Phrasal verbs consist of a verb plus a proposition or an adverb or both. They are used to replace standard
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11 KEY RULES FOR ENGLISH ARTICLES
English articles are determiners that define a noun as specific using the or unspecific using a/an. Whilst this sounds simple
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  • BRITISH ENGLISH IS A MINORITY DIALECT
  • 8 BOGUS GRAMMAR RULES
  • USING PREPOSITIONS FOR IELTS
  • MODAL VERBS FOR IELTS
  • HOW TO USE QUESTION TAGS IN IELTS SPEAKING

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