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My courses Academic IELTS Unit 10 – FREE! CS: Simple, complex and compound sentences Summary of this lesson

In this lesson you should have learned…

  1. that there are different sentences types, from simple to complex
  2. that you should demonstrate a range of these structures in your IELTS writing
  3. how to use commas in complex sentences
  4. how to use linking words in compound and complex sentences
  5. how to use relative clauses

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