ملخص الدرس / الثآنية ثانوي/اللغة الإنجليزية/UNIT 2/Poverty and World resources

You need the following phrases to express certainties and doubts about the future.

I'm (almost) certain that/ (quite)sure that... .

I have the conviction that/ the firm belief that...

It seems to me that ...

It's likely that/probable that... .

I have doubts about ... 

It's improbable/unlikely that ...

Writers use a lot of techniques to avoid repetition because it is not good to repeat the same words when writing. They often express what they mean in different ways. They use

Synonyms.

Antonyms.

Pronouns instead of a noun or noun phrase

A verb instead of a noun

A noun instead of a verb 

We generally organise written texts into paragraphs. Each paragraph develops an idea. There are many techniques for developing paragraphs. One of them is paragraph development by comparison and contrast. We express contrast by using the following link words in contrast to, by contrast, whereas, while, but, however, contrary to, unlike ...