Grammar for ielts fiona Aish & Jo Tomlinson ■L& 11

The Life Span of a Youth Subculture
Stage
Description
Relation to punk movement
1. subculture 1
Styles and values of subcultures 
initiated by c u ltu ra l pioneers
e.g. pioneers like Malcolm 
McClaren
2. 
s u b c u ltu ra l 
2
Often a reaction to so cio -p o litica l 
issues
e.g. economic decline and 
3
3. subcultural plateau
Identified in developm ent of 
shared behavioural, attitudinal, 
fashion, and m usical 
4
e.g. Mohawks, piercings
creation of a deviant
subculture
Often characterized by 
5 
and main subculture 
rejection
e.g. skinheads
4 .6
Caused by ageing of the 
subculture
e.g. rise of dance and new 
rom antics
Youth 
4 5
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11 People and places
C o m p a ra tive s tru c tu re s
Structures that show unequal comparisons:
1 
more/less
+ adjective/adverb + 
than
Livinq in the countryside is health ie r than
Traffic in towns moves more slowlv than in
living in a city.
villages.
2
 
m orel few er! less
+ noun/noun phrase + 
than
There are more DeoDle in this town than 
there used to be.
There are few er superm arkets in countrv 
villages than in regional towns.
3 
not as +
adjective/adverb + as
This town is not as prosperous as the others in 
this region.
The people in London aren't as friendlv as 
those in my home town.
U not as
+ 
much/many +
noun/noun phrase + as
Not as manv people visit New Zealand as 
Australia.
There isn 't as much sun in the north of the 
countrv as in the south.