新闻资讯-雅思表格类小作文：如何才能拿到高分？

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(1)The question says“American”countries,when in reality these are South and Central American countries.Your knowledge permitting,if you know the proper or full name of something stated in the question,then go ahead and use it.

题目里写了American countries，通过看表格，具体指的是中美洲和南美洲国家。那么我们在写作的时候就要把South and Central American countries写出来。

(2)We do not want to state categorically(meaning‘absolutely’)a definitive observation,such as“there is a relationship between A and B”(unless it’s absolutely clear there is).But we can‘suggest’a relationship,in other words,pointing out to the reader the POSSIBILITY of some type of relationship.Our job is to‘observe’,and not‘interpret’,information,but we can show a'correlation'.

小作文的一个原则是相对性。

在展示literacy和economic output两者之间关系的时候，我没有用there is，因为is显得很绝对，而是用了suggesting a relationship exists between literacy and economic output。也就是说，指出有这种关系的可能性，而不是直截了当地陈述lieracy的比率高低和economic output是因果关系。

(3)By following a noun with a comma and then‘a’(an),allows us to further identify the noun.This is a common technique,called an‘appositive clause’,that can also be used in Task 2,especially in the introduction for an opinion essay,where we can identify the topic as:‘,a viewpoint I agree with(for the following reasons)’.

在一个名词的后边加个逗号，紧接着写a/an……，来添加更多的信息。逗号后边的部分叫做：同位语。

同位语在雅思大作文中比较常见，尤其是大作文的介绍段。我公众号的老读者可能会知道，在我写的大作文范文中，在介绍段经常会出现…，a viewpoint I agree with(for the following reasons)，这就是一个典型的同位语。

掌握同位语有什么用呢？首先，它可以体现我们的语法多样性；其次，对于基础较弱的同学来说，它最实用的一个功能，就是凑字数啦。