Punctuation # Grammar For IELTS

Punctuation often neglected are the most important part of writing task in IELTS. It is very important that you have the punctuation marked correctly.
Punctuation means to use the points and stops in writing correctly. The principal stops are-:

  1. Full stop (.)
  2. Comma (,)
  3. Semicolon (;)
  4. Colon (:)
  5. Question mark (?)
  6. Exclamation mark (!)

There are some other marks as well, that are commonly used.

  1. Dash (-)
  2. Parentheses ()
  3. Inverted commas or quotation marks (‘ ’)
FULL STOP
Full stop represent the longest pause.

  1. It marks the end of an imperative or declarative sentence.
    For example-: Bombay is a big city.
  2. It is used after abbreviations and initials.
    For example-: M.A , Mr. A.S. Rathore
    However, in modern English, they are often omitted.
COMMA
Comma represents the shortest pause. It is used in various cases.

  1. It is used to separate a series of words of the same construction.
    For example-: It was long, exciting and lovely day.
    I bought a pen, paper, pencil and sharpener from him.
    NOTE-: comma is not used before the word and.
  2. It is used to separate words connected by and.
    For instance-: pen and paper, high and low, rich and poor, are all in your mind.
  3. Comma is not used after a nominative absolute.
    For example-: This done, she came back to house.
    The weather being favorable, Alexander sailed further.
  4. Comma is used to mark off a noun or phrase in apposition ( the use of noun phrase immediately after another noun phrase that refers to the same person or thing).
    For example-: Mahatma Gandhi, the father of nation, died soon after independence.
    Milton, the great English poet, was blind.
  5. Comma is also used to mark off words used in addressing people. For example-:
    How are you, Anmol?
    Come in the room, Paris.
  6. Comma is used to separate an adverbial clause from its parent clause.
    For example-: when she was the president, she made sure that everything in office is in order.
    Although this comma is omitted if the principal clause comes first.
    For example-: she made sure that everything is in order when she was the president.
  7. They are often used to mark off the direct quotation from the rest of the sentence.
    For example-: “I want the work done”, said the teacher.
  8. Comma is used to avoid repetition of words.
    For example-: Anmol is a kumaoni; Arthur, a Christian.
  9. Comma is used to separate short coordinate clauses of a compound sentence.
    For example-: I came, I saw, I conquered.

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How Noise Became Music # Vocabulary For IELTS

HOW NOISE BECAME MUSIC

We live in the loudest of times. It all began about twenty years ago, when new digital technologies started to radically alter the way music was made, refined, and shared. It suddenly became fairly easy to endow songs with a more aggressive presence: with a click of the mouse, you just made it all—especially the quiet parts—louder. Since then, there’s been a debate over the effects of the “loudness wars” on our ability to appreciate nuance, particularly the dynamic range between loud and soft that, in the parlance of audiophiles, gives music the room to “breathe.” As musicians from Iggy Pop to Christina Aguilera began making their music as thunderous as possible, our standards and preferences gradually changed. Loudness has won. We have come to crave music that is garish, punchy, and, according to the anti-loudness partisans, poorly engineered. But now that we listen to music everywhere—often in a semi-distracted state, across a range of devices and settings—it should come as no surprise that artists want their music to come pre-coated with a glossy immediacy. First impressions matter. Why not insure that you can’t be ignored?

how noise became music vocabulary for ielts

how noise became music vocabulary for ielts

VOCABULARY EXPLAINED

RADICALLY
Radically means fundamentally or in a completely basic manner.
ALTER
Alter means to change or become different or modify it.
ENDOW
Endow means to equip something. Here it means, that songs are equipped with aggressive sounds, that is the songs made are more aggressive now.
AGGRESSIVE
Aggressive refers to something that is vigorously energetic. An aggressive music means something that energizes you.
NUANCE
Nuance is used to refer to slight difference or variation in color or tone. So here it says it wants to find whether you can tolerate slight difference in loud and soft music.
PARLANCE
AUDIOPHILE
Audiophile refers to a person who is interested in a
THUNDEROUS
Thunderous is anything that produces thunder or thunder like noise.
GARISH
Garish refers to anything that is glittering or showy or may be vulgar.
PUNCHY
Punchy means confused.
PARTISANS
Partisans are non-conformist or sectarians.
IMMEDIACY
Immediacy is closeness.

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A Faint Heart # Idioms For IELTS

If you really want to succeed in life, don’t have a faint heart. How is heart related to success? Well, read more and find out.

THROW SOMEONE FOR LOOP
SENTENCE-: Stories of Sherlock Holmes throw me for loop.
MEANING-: surprise or astonish someone
A FAINT HEART
SENTENCE-: If you have a faint heart, forget about any success in life.
MEANING-: lacking will power and hence preventing from achieving goals
GET OUT OF SOMEONE’S FACE
SENTENCE-: Just get out of my face.
MEANING-: stop harassing or annoying someone
NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE
SENTENCE-: Anmol Tanubhrt is not just a pretty face.
MEANING-: not only beautiful but also intelligent
UP A TREE
SENTENCE-: When caught up a tree, always listen to your heart.
MEANING-: in a difficult situation and without any escape
GO WALKING
SENTENCE-: The jewels of the crown of the queen went walking.
MEANING-: go missing, especially because of theft
MAKE A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
SENTENCE-: If making a trip down memory lane hurts you, better not make that trip.
MEANING-: to deliberately remember things from the past that are sentimental.
RAISE YOUR SIGHTS
SENTENCE-: With the passage of time, she has raised her sights.
MEANING-: to become more ambitious
TRAIL YOUR COAT
SENTENCE-: Stay away from him, he has a habit of trailing his coat.
MEANING-: deliberately start a fight
ON A WING AND A PRAYER
SENTENCE-: You must not lose hope even though you are on a wing and a prayer.
MEANING-: with only slightest chances of victory

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Linking Words

Linking plays a very important role in your essay. 25% of your marks in essay depend on the linking and the cohesion of your essay. It is not only important for you to get the linking correct but you are required to give a range of linking words with perfect accuracy and flexibility. Linking words can be useful for you while listing, adding information, giving examples, showing results or consequences, highlighting, stressing or giving reasons.
Given below are the linking words that can be used in each of the cases.

LISTING
Linking words for listing are used to either put paragraphs in order or even to list your supporting points in paragraph.

  1. Firstly, secondly, thirdly ….
  2. Lastly, last but not the least , finally
Adding Information
Sometimes you need to support your main idea in essay, given below are the linkers that are used to inform that extra information will be provided.

  1. In addition
  2. Additionally
  3. Furthermore
  4. Moreover
  5. Also
  6. As well as
  7. And
Giving Example
Often you are required to give examples in your writing task. Always writing the same word could make you lose marks. Try to use the given linking words,

  1. For example
  2. In other words
  3. For instance
  4. Namely
  5. Such as

    6. To illustrate

Presenting Opinion
In essays wherein you are required to give your own opinion, following linking words will prove to be helpful to you.

  1. In my opinon
  2. I think
  3. I disagree/ I cannot accept
  4. I admit
  5. In my view
  6. I believe
  7. I concur/ agree
Results and Consequences
These linking words are very useful in when you are required to give solutions in your essay or state the consequences of something.

  1. As a result
  2. Consequently
  3. Thus
  4. Hence
  5. Therefore
  6. So
  7. For this reason
CONTRASTS
Often while writing essay, you are required to give opinion. Doing this sometimes you have to give your opinion of the opposing form. Given below are some of the linking words that could be helpful for you in such situations.

  1. However
  2. Nevertheless
  3. Even though
  4. Although
  5. But
  6. Despite
  7. Still
  8. On the other hand
  9. By contrast
  10. In comparison
  11. Alternatively
  12. Other option could be
Concluding Linkers
These linkers are useful to start your conclusion paragraph.

  1. In conclusion
  2. To sum up
  3. To conclude

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