You will know what they are after reading a few examples:
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- two-word prepositions: as to, except for<\/li>
- three-word prepositions: in comparison with, in addition to<\/li>
- four-word prepositions: with a view to, for the benefit of<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Alright. But you may ask a question. How to use these prepositions to get higher scores at IELTS writing? Let\u2019s check out a real example regarding task 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Read the following sentences:
<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 2010 and 2019, government’s spending on all four of the largest areas had dropped.
However, spending on pensions was an exception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIt looks good but you will most probably get level 5, not even 6, with sentences like this. So what are you going to do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A four-word preposition comes to your rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Which four-word preposition is it? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n If you go back to the last two words of the last sentence, you will notice the words \u201can exception\u201d, right? So, can you change it into a four-word preposition with the same meaning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right. Just change “an exception” to \u2018with the exception of\u201d and the sentences become:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 2010 and 2019, government’s spending on all four of the largest areas had dropped, with the exception of<\/span> pensions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a word, by using a more-than-one-word preposition, your level will be enhanced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You want to get level 7 from level 6 or even 5 at IELTS writing? There is one thing you must use. What is it? Prepositions. That easy? Well, not really. I mean prepositions with more-than-one words. You will know what they are after reading a few examples: two-word prepositions: as to, except for three-word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ielts-writing","tag-ielts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/woman-covering-face-while-reading.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}