The chart gives information about UK immigration, emigration and net migration between
1999 and 2008.

Both immigration and emigration rates rose over the period shown, but the figures for
immigration were significantly higher. Net migration peaked in 2004 and 2007.

In 1999, over 450,000 people came to live in the UK, while the number of people who
emigrated stood at just under 300,000. The figure for net migration was around 160,000, and
it remained at a similar level until 2003. From 1999 to 2004, the immigration rate rose by
nearly 150,000 people, but there was a much smaller rise in emigration. Net migration peaked
at almost 250,000 people in 2004.

After 2004, the rate of immigration remained high, but the number of people emigrating
fluctuated. Emigration fell suddenly in 2007, before peaking at about 420,000 people in 2008.
As a result, the net migration figure rose to around 240,000 in 2007, but fell back to around
160,000 in 2008.

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Internet Users as percentage of population (Line Graph) Score 9

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IELTS Line Graph  Score 9 Sample Internet Users as percentage of population (Line Graph) 

The line graph compares the percentage of people in three countries who used the Internet
between 1999 and 2009.

It is clear that the proportion of the population who used the Internet increased in each
country over the period shown. Overall, a much larger percentage of Canadians and
Americans had access to the Internet in comparison with Mexicans, and Canada experienced the fastest growth in Internet usage.

In 1999, the proportion of people using the Internet in the USA was about 20%. The figures
for Canada and Mexico were lower, at about 10% and 5% respectively. In 2005, Internet
usage in both the USA and Canada rose to around 70% of the population, while the figure for Mexico reached just over 25%.

By 2009, the percentage of Internet users was highest in Canada. Almost 100% of Canadians used the Internet, compared to about 80% of Americans and only 40% of Mexicans.

Uncountable and collective nouns

Uncountable and collective nouns

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Uncountable nouns

Any language has nouns identifying materials and abstract concepts that cannot be counted. Uncountable nouns have only one form: either singular, or plural.

Example:

English nouns that only have a singular form:
sugar; bread; love; information; advice; knowledge; progress; money.
Pay special attention to singular nouns that are constructed as plurals: news, politics, physics, phonetics, etc. They must always be used with the singular form of a verb: The news was exciting. Physics doesn't interest me.

English nouns that only have a plural form:
goods; clothes; riches; contents; savings; bowels; whereabouts; surroundings.
To refer to a portion or to many instances of objects designated by uncountable nouns lexical means are used.

Example:

They sell many brands of sugar but few other goods. We gathered a great deal of information. She gave me a good piece of advice. He donated a portion of his savings.

Collective nouns

Collective nouns designate groups of animate objects: family, audience, crew, team, group, army, party, crowd, staff, board, herd, flock. In English, a collective noun can be used, without changing its singular form, to refer either to the group as a whole or to individuals comprising the group. As a sentence subject, such a noun agrees with the singular or plural form of a verb, depending on usage.

Example:

The team has performed excellent.> The team were talking to reporters. My family is large.> My family are having dinner.

Exceptions:

The nouns police, people, and cattle are always used with a verb in plural.

 

Plural Noun English Grammar

Plural Noun

Nouns refer to objects and concepts that either can or cannot be counted. Accordingly, only the so-called countable nouns can have a plural form. The plural of countable nouns in English is formed by adding to their singular form the suffix -s or -es, which is pronounced [z] after vowels and voiced consonants (days, dogs), [s] after voiceless consonants (books), and [iz] after -s, -sh, -ch, -x, -z (horses, watches, boxes). The variant -es is used when the singular form of a word ends in -s, -sh, -ch, -x, -z, or -o with a preceding consonant.

Example:

table> tables; sea> seas; John> Johns; wish> wishes; potato> potatoes. Also note the spelling changes fe> ve, consonant+y> ie: knife> knives; city> cities.

Exceptions:

Plural of the following English nouns is non-standard: man> men; woman> women; foot> feet; tooth> teeth; mouse> mice; child> children; louse> lice; goose> geese; ox> oxen. Some nouns borrowed from Greek and Latin have a special plural form: basis> bases; crisis> crises; phenomenon> phenomena; datum> data; stimulus> stimuli; cactus> cacti. The following nouns have the same form in singular and plural: (this/these) fish, sheep, swine, deer, craft, means, works, headquarters. Manywidely used nouns designating symmetrical objects have only a plural form: trousers, pants, shorts, jeans, trunks, braces, scissors, tongs, scales, glasses, spectacles.

Case

Just like singular nouns, plural nouns also have the possessive case, which is formed by appending an apostrophe to the regular plural suffix -s (pronunciation is not changed) or by using the possessive ending -'s with non-standard plural forms.

Example:

doctors' offices; knives' blades; children's play, these fish's migration.

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Singular Noun English Grammar

Singular Noun 

Noun is a part of speech that describes an object, a person, or a concept. It answers the question 'what is it?' or 'who is it'?. English nouns often have an article 'a' or 'the' . English nouns have categories of number and case. Nouns are often accompanied by a modifier .

Gender

A grammatical category of gender does not exist in modern English. The concept of gender reveals itself only with regard to animate objects. When pronouns are used to designate such objects, their choice is determined not by the grammatical gender of the nouns they substitute, as in many other languages, but by the natural sex of persons or animals they refer to. For example, the word 'cat' can be replaced by the pronoun 'he' or 'she' depending on the sex of the actual animal. All nouns designating inanimate objects can be replaced by the pronoun 'it'. Pronoun 'it' is also used to refer to animals whose sex is unknown or not relevant in a given context.

Example:

boy = he; mom = she; play = it (no gender); wolf = it (wild animal, sex unknown); sun = it (no gender).

Exception:

Traditionally, pronoun 'she' is used to refer to inanimate objects such as cars, ships, and countries.

Case

English nouns have only two grammatical cases: common and possessive. Common case is the main form of a noun, in which it would appear in a dictionary. In this case words do not have any special endings. Possessive case of nouns serves to define the relationship of belonging of one object or concept to another. A singular noun in the possessive case has the ending -'s, which is pronounced [z] after vowels and voiced consonants (play's end; friend's book), [s] after voiceless consonants (wolf's fang), and [iz] after -s, -sh, -ch, -x, -z (rose's smell; brush's handle). Proper nouns that end in -s can either append the regular ending -'s or just an apostrophe (Dickens's novel or Dickens' novel); it is pronounced [iz] in either case. Possessive case of plural nouns see .

Function

A noun can function in the sentence as subject, object, or modifier. When used as objects, English nouns do not change their form but are often accompanied by prepositions . In English a noun may serve as a modifier to another noun without changing its form.

Example:

state border; iron will; shoe store; brick building.

IELTS LIFE CYCLE DIAGRAM TASK 1

IELTS LIFE CYCLE DIAGRAM TASK 1

The diagram illustrates the various stages in the life of a honey bee. It is seen that the complete life cycle lasts between 34 and 36 days. It is also noticeable that there are five main stages in the development of the honey bee, from egg to mature adult insect.

The life cycle of the honey bee begins when the female adult lays an egg; the female typically lays one or two eggs every 3 days. Between 9 and 10 days later, each egg hatches and the immature insect, or nymph, appears.

During the third stage of the life cycle, the nymph grows in size and sheds its skin three times. This moulting first takes place 5 days after the egg hatches, then 7 days later, and again another 9 days later. After a total of 30 to 31 days from the start of the cycle, the young adult honey bee emerges from its final moulting stage, and in the space of only 4 days it reaches full maturity.

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IELTS Writing Task 1: flow chart essay

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IELTS Writing Task 1:flow chart essay

The chart below shows the process of waste paper recycling.

The flow chart shows how waste paper is recycled. It is clear that there are six distinct stages in this process, from the initial collection of waste paper to the eventual production of usable paper.

At the first stage in the paper recycling process, waste paper is collected either from paper banks, where members of the public leave their used paper, or directly from businesses. This paper is then sorted by hand and separated according to its grade, with any paper that is not suitable for recycling being removed. Next, the graded paper is transported to a paper mill.

Stages four and five of the process both involve cleaning. The paper is cleaned and pulped, and foreign objects such as staples are taken out. Following this, all remnants of ink and glue are removed from the paper at the de-inking stage. Finally, the pulp can be processed in a paper making machine, which makes the end product: usable paper.

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IELTS Writing Task 1: stacked bar chart essay

IELTS Writing Task 1: stacked bar chart essay

The chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries.

The bar chart compares twelve countries in terms of the overall number of medals that they have won at the Olympic Games.

It is clear that the USA is by far the most successful Olympic medal winning nation. It is also noticeable that the figures for gold, silver and bronze medals won by any particular country tend to be fairly similar.

The USA has won a total of around 2,300 Olympic medals, including approximately 900 gold medals, 750 silver and 650 bronze. In second place on the all-time medals chart is the Soviet Union, with just over 1,000 medals. Again, the number of gold medals won by this country is slightly higher than the number of silver or bronze medals.

Only four other countries - the UK, France, Germany and Italy - have won more than 500 Olympic medals, all with similar proportions of each medal colour. Apart from the USA and the Soviet Union, China is the only other country with a noticeably higher proportion of gold medals (about 200) compared to silver and bronze (about 100 each).

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