Nonverbis
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This is from the book "IELTS Advantage writing skills" by Richard Brown.
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I'm interested in exercise 2 here, but I provide you with a screenshot of the whole page so that you should understand the context.
The answer key:
![1652502641731.png 1652502641731.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3800-023f61d3f22946cec894e721e020f375.jpg)
First of all, for me the sentences in the task did not look too general. They looked acceptable. But anyway, I did something like this:
"Crime rate correlates with unemployment rate, the higher tha latter, the higher the former".
But the answer key is just about adding some adverb or a modal verb. And the sentence is as general as before.
Could you help me understand what "generalization" means? The answer keys are just a bit more sophisticated grammatically.
Does this all mean that we just should enrich our grammatical constructions and use more adverbs, which is a sign of an advanced learner?
![1652502619631.png 1652502619631.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3799-8e7281f7e72703962a8b868a9873bedd.jpg)
I'm interested in exercise 2 here, but I provide you with a screenshot of the whole page so that you should understand the context.
The answer key:
![1652502641731.png 1652502641731.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3800-023f61d3f22946cec894e721e020f375.jpg)
First of all, for me the sentences in the task did not look too general. They looked acceptable. But anyway, I did something like this:
"Crime rate correlates with unemployment rate, the higher tha latter, the higher the former".
But the answer key is just about adding some adverb or a modal verb. And the sentence is as general as before.
Could you help me understand what "generalization" means? The answer keys are just a bit more sophisticated grammatically.
Does this all mean that we just should enrich our grammatical constructions and use more adverbs, which is a sign of an advanced learner?