This Pizza Will Fix Your DET Interactive Writing

Описание: You're losing points on DET Interactive Writing — not because you don't know the word, but because when you blank, you don't even know what TYPE of word you need.

That's a different problem. And it has a different fix.

I call it the Grammar Pizza. The left side of the pizza is the subject — who or what does something. The right side is the predicate — the verb and the object. When you see a blank on the DET Interactive Writing task, you use the pizza to figure out what kind of word goes there before you start writing. That means you're not guessing. You're identifying.

Most students see a blank and panic. They try to remember the word. They freeze. The timer keeps going. Points gone.

The Grammar Pizza stops that from happening because it gives your brain a visual anchor under pressure. Instead of "what's the word?", you ask "what side of the pizza is this blank on?" That question has an answer even when the word doesn't come.

But the pizza alone isn't enough.

You also need morphology — how English changes word endings to signal noun, verb, adjective, adverb. When you combine the pizza with morphology, you go from "I have no idea" to "this blank needs a noun, so I'm looking for an -tion or -ment ending." That's a strategy. That's what moves your score.
In this video I show you:

→ What the Grammar Pizza is and how to draw it in your head in 2 seconds
→ How to use it to identify what type of word goes in any blank
→ Why knowing the word type is more powerful than knowing the word
→ How to combine the pizza with morphology to narrow down your answer fast
→ Why your score stays stuck when you rely on memorization instead of strategy
→ The real reason the DET punishes hesitation and how to stop hesitating
This is a thinking strategy, not a grammar lesson. You don't need to memorize new rules. You need a visual process that works under time pressure — and this is it.

If you want to go deeper, I made a full video on suffixes and prefixes (word endings and beginnings) that pairs directly with the Grammar Pizza. Watch that after this one and you'll have a system that covers almost every Interactive Writing question you'll see on the test.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Why Interactive Writing is costing you points
0:28 The real problem (it's not the word — it's the word type)
0:52 What is the Grammar Pizza?
1:18 Left side: the subject
1:42 Right side: the predicate (verb + object)
2:10 How to use it on a real DET question
2:48 Combining the pizza with morphology
3:22 Why memorization fails under pressure
3:58 The DET punishes hesitation — here's how to stop it
4:30 What to practice next

🎯 YOUR TEST: Find a sentence with a blank and tell me in the comments — is the blank on the left side or right side of the pizza? I'll tell you if you're right and what type of word it needs.

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This video is for DET students who are stuck — usually somewhere between 95 and 130 — and can't figure out why their score won't move. If you've been studying vocabulary lists and grammar rules and your Interactive Writing score isn't improving, this is why. The DET is not testing your memory. It's testing your ability to think in English under pressure. The Grammar Pizza is one piece of that system.

If you're preparing for a visa, university admission, or immigration requirement and you need a score above 120, you need strategies like this — not more flashcards.

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