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Can you accurately correct these errors from some Academic IELTS Task 1 essays?

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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 - Error Correction

Can you accurately correct these errors from some Academic IELTS Task 1 essays?

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Academic Writing Task 1 – Error correction

Recommended Use: The following errors come from some actual student essays. Cover the second column and test yourself. If
it is NO PROBLEM for you, then don’t spend any more time on that sentence. Some students find that focusing on errors is not
helpful, and they start to remember the errors. If this happens to you, this is not a good way to study. Another way to use this is to
translate the ‘correct’ column into your language. Then use those samples as prompts, instead of the errors.

 Incorrect  Correct
The doctor to patient ratio in Nepal is twice that of Latvia.
Patient for doctor in Nepal is twice than that in
Latvia.
There are twice as many patients per doctor in Nepal than in Latvia.

London is the noisiest city between the other cities. London is the noisiest city of all.

Even though Los Angeles has the fewest population… Even though Los Angeles has the lowest population…

In Los Angeles, 12.4 murders happens per 100,000


In Los Angeles, there are 12.4 murders per 100,000 people.
people…

There are 20,000 patients per a doctor in Nepal, There are 20,000 patients per doctor in Nepal, while in Latvia there are
while in Latvia is only 200 patients. only 200.

Shanghai has about 1.1 million more people than Los Angeles.
Shanghai has more population than LA about 1.1
million people.
Shanghai’s population is larger than Los Angeles by about 1.1 million.

In 1990, rural percentage more than half of the world


In 1990, more than half of the world’s population lived in rural areas.
population.

The proportion of the world’s population living in rural areas was


The proportion of the world’s population living in
much higher in the 1990s than it is predicted (or expected) to be by
rural areas is much higher in the 1990s than in 2025.
2025.

Nepal has very little doctors per patient than Latvia. Nepal has much fewer doctors per patient than Latvia.

Women in Africa are almost half of men who can The number of illiterate women in Africa is almost twice as much as
read and write. the number of illiterate men.

There are 20 times more patients per doctor in Nepal as there are in
Patients per doctor in Nepal are 20 times as many
Latvia.
patients as doctors in Latvia.
The doctor to patient ratio in Nepal is 20 times less than in Latvia.

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