This is "a textbook and reference book designed to help students understand all aspects of sentence structure and syntax and to help teachers explain all difficult to answer questions that students might have. This book is also suitable for students hoping to achieve a 6.0 or a 7.0 in the IELTS test. This book covers the following topics: adverbial clauses, cause and effect language, cohesion, compare and contrast language, gerund clauses, hedging, independent and dependent clauses, infinitive clauses, modals, noun clauses, participial clauses, passive voice, refutation, relative clauses, tense, word forms, writer voice. Answers and examples included." -- from back cover.