In the English Grammar Profile, C1 Point 65 in the category of ADVERBS/phrases is defined as: post-modify adverbs with a complex prepositional phrase complement, to highlight information. *This will overlap stance adverbs in the initial position. A search in iWeb for: . *ly_RR _I * * 1 . LUCKILY FOR US , 1429 2 . […]
Here at EnglishGrammar.Pro, we are always looking for new resources that position language features on the CEFR scale. Note that, unlike Cambridge which uses what students can produce, Oxford uses the receptive knowledge of students to allocate the levels. One great resource is their phrase list. The Oxford Phrase List is a list of 750 […]
Now that we have looked briefly at what educational research is, it’s time to get more specific about one of the qualitative designs. Ethno means people and graphy is writing, so this is writing about groups of people. It comes from cultural anthropology or writing about culture. This could include their thoughts, the rules of […]
In the English Grammar Profile, A2 Point 26 in the category of VERBS is defined as: an increasing range of linking verbs with complements. The following point overlaps A2 Point 27 verbs with adjective complements. *Note that B2 is the highest level asigned for linking verbs *feels and looks are in the examples for A2. […]
Although gerunds are covered in a few different ways across a few CEFR levels in the English Grammar Profile, there is no entry given to the use of a gerund after ‘need’ as MODALITY which is listed by PEARSON: GSE 63 B2 ‘need’ with verbs in the gerund to express necessity. ‘need’ + Verb Phrase […]
When the object and the subject refer to the same person or thing, the direct object is a ‘reflexive‘ pronoun. FOUND MYSELF THINKING | FIND THEMSELVES FACING | SEE HIMSELF PLAYING | KEEP ITSELF WAITING | DEFENDED HIMSELF SAYING lexical verb + reflexive pronoun + verbING Read More » The verb ‘assert’ is C1 in […]
There are more than 10 ways ‘far‘ is used in English grammar. We’ve also explained the superlative of ‘far‘ elsewhere. In this post, we are looking at how the phrase ‘by far‘ means ‘by a great amount‘. Remember that ‘by far‘ changes the strength of the superlative adjective that comes after it. When we use […]
The direct object normally comes after the verb. ‘You eat sushi.’ However, the direct object is fronted in WH- questions: ‘What did you eat?’ and in some relative clauses: ‘Sushi is what I ate.’ Using noun phrases as objects of the clause helps provide more information about the action or state described by the verb […]
In the EGP, there are several points in the category of PRONOUNS with the possessive pronoun ‘ours’: C1 Point 101: … in subject position B2 Point 72: … with singular and plural reference, in subject position. B2 Point 86 is the same except: … in object positions, and complement positions after ‘be’ and after prepositions. […]
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 138 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: could as the past form of ‘can’ in reported speech For example: Victim support arrived at our door and told us that we could expect to write off the next five years to grief. TED The following clusters from iWeb were searched with varying the spaces between said|told * * * could 1 SAID HE COULD 13770 1 SAID […]
In the English Grammar Profile, using the word ‘dare’ is b2-c2 and rare. The other strange thing is that some of the most common Ngrams (words found together) are C2 and less common seem to be B2 according to Cambridge research. For that reason, the complexity checking ability around this vocabulary item should be taken […]
1 UNITED (NP1) 2015534 2 UNITED (JJ) 533293 3 UNLIMITED (JJ) 287458 4 UNEXPECTED (JJ) 267952 5 UNWANTED (JJ) 155099 6 UNPRECEDENTED (JJ) 130278 7 UNAUTHORIZED (JJ) 108529 8 UNUSED (JJ) 105786 9 UNRELATED (JJ) 82860 10 UNCHANGED (JJ) 80787 11 UNPARALLELED (JJ) 71025 12 UNEMPLOYED (JJ) 66769 13 UNFINISHED (JJ) 53918 14 UNMATCHED (JJ) […]
“Ought to” is similar to “should”, in that it can be used to give advice, express expectation, desired states, obligation, or high probability. The “ought to-infinitive” construction is considered a semi-modal verb phrase because it shares characteristics with both modal verbs and main verbs. Like modal verbs, “ought to” does not change form for person. For […]