academic / BE, brief, can, clearly, compare, compares, illustrate, illustrates, in, it, major, NN, overall, present, presents, show, shows, specific, summarise, summary, to, VVN I’m often asked by my students just before they take an IELTS test for some quick tips on what to study before a particular task. Therefore, in this post, I will […]
ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: […]
academic / BE, brief, can, clearly, compare, compares, illustrate, illustrates, in, it, major, NN, overall, present, presents, show, shows, specific, summarise, summary, to, VVN I’m often asked by my students just before they take an IELTS test for some quick tips on what to study before a particular task. Therefore, in this post, I will […]
academic / BE, brief, can, clearly, compare, compares, illustrate, illustrates, in, it, major, NN, overall, present, presents, show, shows, specific, summarise, summary, to, VVN I’m often asked by my students just before they take an IELTS test for some quick tips on what to study before a particular task. Therefore, in this post, I will […]
ADVERBS, C2, certainty, MODALITY, response token / absolutely, certainly, definitely, partially, probably, respectively, RR, somewhat, sure, surely, undeniably, undoubtedly, unquestionably When you ‘listen’ to someone speaking in a conversation, you can respond with short phrases that add to the conversation. These utterances carry information and sometimes a single word like an adverb is all you […]
academic / argued, done, have, IELTS, is, it, what, you I put this advanced student sample answer to the IELTS writing task 2 through our English Grammar Profiler looking for stand out features. Here are the highest grammar constructions, that we have listed as C1: It is argued that volunteering should be made a part of the school curriculum. (This […]
A2, exclamations, NOUNS, phrases / a, brilliant, difference, fantastic, gift, guy, idea, JJ, mistake, NN, off, pain, PELIC, perfect, piece, pity, pleasant, shame, story, surprise, way, what, wonderful Point 38 in the category of CLAUSES/exclamations: ‘What a’ + noun phrase and ‘What a’ + noun phrase + clause PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: What a trip it was. Japanese female […]
CLAUSES, defining, reduced, relative / a, know, making, NN, person, requesting, seeking, signing, the, VVG Pearson’s GSE 56 B1+ is defined: “reduced” defining (restrictive) relative clauses with verb +-ing. This point will overlap: verb of senses + object + verbing This is difficult grammar to find in corpora since many other structures get caught. We […]
ADVERBS, C2, certainty, MODALITY, response token / absolutely, certainly, definitely, partially, probably, respectively, RR, somewhat, sure, surely, undeniably, undoubtedly, unquestionably When you ‘listen’ to someone speaking in a conversation, you can respond with short phrases that add to the conversation. These utterances carry information and sometimes a single word like an adverb is all you […]
ADVERBS, C2, certainty, MODALITY, response token / absolutely, certainly, definitely, partially, probably, respectively, RR, somewhat, sure, surely, undeniably, undoubtedly, unquestionably When you ‘listen’ to someone speaking in a conversation, you can respond with short phrases that add to the conversation. These utterances carry information and sometimes a single word like an adverb is all you […]
ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: […]
ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: […]
A2, CLAUSES, indirect, object, pattern, REPORTED SPEECH, VERBS / anyone, assure, believe, care, could, covers, everyone, everything, includes, matter, offers, P, PELIC, remind, should, show, someone, tell, telling, tells, thank, that, told, VV Point 12 in the category of VERBS/patterns is defined: verbs, typically reporting verbs, followed by a noun or pronoun as the indirect […]
ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: […]
