Bên cạnh học cách phân biệt các từ rất dễ nhầm lẫn như UNLIKE, UNLIKELY, LIKE...IELTS TUTOR hướng dẫn các em cách phân biệt các cụm thường dùng trong IELTS SPEAKING dễ nhầm lẫn sau:
1. CÁCH DÙNG BE NOT MUCH OF A....
Be not much of a... là 1 idiom thường dùng để miêu tả "mình không giỏi việc gì đó", hoặc "không giống như là"
Ví dụ:
He's not much of a cook.
It wasn't much of a vacation.
I’m not much of a photographer
That wasn’t much of a lecture.
2. Less of: ít hơn mức độ mình tưởng tượng
Ví dụ:
- There was less of a crowd where Rachel reached the beach than she had expected.
- She smiled blandly at them and then proceeded to hurl what was more or less of a bombshell at them.
- Getting there is less of a problem if you have a car.
- It is less of a problem than I'd expected.
3. be more of something than something: là cái này hơn là cái kia
Ví dụ:
- It was more of a holiday than a training exercise.
- The role of the computer analysts may be more of facilitator than designer, helping to realise the users' wishes.
- Inside, the piers were massive and there were more of them than in examples further west.
- The boundaries of the study area are more of convenience than purely zoogeographical, because of the paucity of material from certain regions.
- To my eyes there was more of strength than refinement in the face ...
- There are more of them than there are of us.
- Soon there will be more of us than there are of you.
- There were more of them than there used to be, he was sure of it.
- There was more of everything than there were people.
4. more/less/much of a something: dùng để mô tả tính chất của sự vật, sự việc
IELTS TUTOR xét ví dụ:
- It was really more of a comment than a question.
- Jet travel has made moving from place to place less of an ordeal.
- Getting tickets for Tuesday shouldn’t be much of a problem.
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