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Structure: ‘Reporting verbs’
Reporting verbs like estimated, felt, and told carry different shades of meaning — practise them with the story of Boeing's 2024 machinists' strike.
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Structure: ‘Must have’ vs ‘can’t have’
When investigators reconstruct an accident, they reason from evidence — the same logic English expresses with ‘must have’ and ‘can’t have’. Practise the contrast using the…
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Structure: ‘Due to’ vs ‘because’
"Due to" and "because" both explain a cause — but different grammar follows each one. Practise the contrast using the 2024 CrowdStrike IT outage that grounded…
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Structure: ‘Reporting verbs’
Allege, claim, insist, acknowledge, deny, testify: practise the reporting verbs that shaped coverage of Boeing's Senate hearing on its safety culture.
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Structure: ‘Purpose clauses’
To treat the injured, so that passengers understand the risk: practise purpose clauses with the Singapore Airlines turbulence incident.
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Structure: ‘Causative verbs (have/get something done)’
Someone else does the action for you: how to build and use the causative (have/get something done), with practice from a real airline-refund story.