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Unit 02
Vocabulary & Grammar (Questions 1–20)
academic words, tenses, passive, linkers and relative clauses
Mixed Fields
In the real exam, all texts come from the field you chose. Here the questions mix Social, Health and Natural Sciences so that you can practise all three; the field units of this section focus on one field each.
What Makes YÖKDİL Grammar Different?
- Academic tenses: research findings use present perfect (studies have shown), historical facts use past simple (was first described in 1928), general truths use present simple.
- Passive everywhere: it is estimated that, is thought to have been, are believed to.
- Formal linkers: whereas, thereby, hence, notwithstanding, provided that, in that.
- Vocabulary: verbs such as enhance, impair, undergo, attribute, derive, exhibit and adverbs such as considerably, merely, roughly.