Referencing Words – IELTS Grammar

Referencing Words

Stop repeating the same nouns and make your ideas easy to follow. Referencing words like it, this, they and such point back to what you have already said, and examiners check them for Coherence and Cohesion.

In this lesson, you’ll see how a Band 7 writer links every sentence in a Task 2 paragraph, learn to make your references clear, and fix the comma splices that cost marks.

  • A Band 7 Task 2 paragraph and a Speaking Part 1 example
  • this + noun: this trend, these measures, such rules
  • the former, the latter, one, ones and do so
  • 16 phrases, six practice activities and answers

13 pages · Fillable PDF · Suitable for B1 learners and above