💎 IELTS CÔNG THỨC NÓI TIẾNG ANH PHẦN 12

✅ Formula 12: How has X changed?
Cấu trúc:
1 Use the present perfect tense.
Since l was young, my town has changed in a lot of ways.
Remember that the structure of the present perfect is: have/has+ past participle
She has invested lots of money in a KTV restaurant.
The government has spent lots of money on public transport recently.
The traffic situation has become a lot worse in the last few years.
2 Control other simple tenses like past and present.
My town was small. Now it is quite big.
The streets used to be quiet. Now they are very noisy.
Look at some example sentences that use these tenses to talk about changes:
My town was small; now it is quite big.
The streets used to be very quiet; now they are noisy.
The shops sold poor-quality clothes; now they sell the latest designer fashions.
Before many people ate at small eateries or night markets, but now people choose more expensive restaurants.
3 Use comparative adjectives.
The streets are wider and the traffic is heavier than before.
Comparative structure
In comparing the past to the present, it is also useful to remember this structure:
X +ls/are+ comparative adjective+ than+ time in the past
My city is prettier than it was ten years ago.
The university library is much better stocked now than it was before.
The city is a lot greener than it was when I was a child.