ADVERBS, B1, DETERMINERS, quantity / all, almost, any, approximately, area, AT1, basically, case, company, corner, DB, every, full, half, hardly, least, level, nearly, NN, once, online, piece, probably, roughly, RR, so, TLC, turn, twice, type, virtually, VV, way, worse, yet, _AT Here are a few examples of determiners premodified by intensifiers. There are hardly any phone booths left in this city. TLC […]
ADVERBS, FUTURE, MODALITY, NEGATIVE, time / a, for, hours, JJ, little, long, marry, NNT1, not, tell, time, week, while, whole, will, years, yet In the English Vocabulary Profile at C1, YET from now and for a particular period of time in the future A search in the NOW corpus for: for a _JJ _NNT yet […]
NOUNS, phrases / a, APPGE, best, both, business, end, feel, good, JJ, my, of, on, out, the, their, this, top, VD, whole, world, worlds In this post, we give examples of 7 different ways the noun ‘world‘ is used in English. In the English Vocabulary Profile at A2: your world = your life and experiences A […]
GE refers to the part of speech tag for the possessive ‘s = genetive. B1, DETERMINERS, irregular, NOUNS, plural, possessive / championship, charity, development, education, GE, issues, literature, NN2, services, singles, track, women In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 44 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: ‘S after irregular plural nouns to indicate possession. […]
A2, affirmative, auxiliary, CLAUSES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, simple, VERBS / BE, correct, did, do, enough, fair, have, interested, kidding, perfect, planning, serious, sure, true, trying, VB, VD, VH, VVG, XX, you Here is another group of A2 English Grammar Profile points that overlap multiple categories. Many of these could be all merged into one […]
B1, infinitive, MODALITY / accept, act, adapt, add, adjust, admit, agree, assume, battle, beat, become, bite, break, bring, build, call, cancel, charge, check, compete, compromise, consider, continue, convince, cover, create, cut, deal, decide, defend, deliver, develop, dig, disagree, drop, earn, endure, expect, experiment, explain, fight, figure, fill, fix, focus, follow, force, grow, happen, hate, have, […]
B1, FUTURE, intention, NEGATIVE, plan / allow, argue, beat, become, believe, bother, break, bring, call, comment, complain, cover, cut, discuss, fall, fix, happen, hold, hurt, keep, kill, let, lie, lose, move, PELIC, pretend, save, sell, solve, spend, stand, try, turn, waste, win In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 26 in the category of FUTURE […]
NOUNS, phrases / a, about, almost, AP, believe, did, do, for, give, hear, his, in, it, keep, kept, loss, lost, my, NN, not, other, president, same, say, take, the, understand, utter, VH, VV, with, word, words, XX, _AT In the English Vocabulary Profile at B1: not believe/understand/hear/say, etc. a word = anything A search in […]
C2, continuous, infinitive, PASSIVES, perfect, VERBS / admit, admits, appear, appeared, appears, BE, being, chased, considered, controlled, handed, ignored, lined, punished, responsible, rewarded, seem, seemed, seems, supported, to, VVN There is no entry in the English Grammar Profile for the continuous infinitive passive. Therefore, we say this is a C2 grammar structure. A search in […]
C1, research / belief, beyond, care, contrary, conventional, disputes, extend, for, illusion, in, insight, into, no, popular, the, their, to, trust, under, way, win In the C1 advanced handbook, there is a practice test for Reading and Use of English Part 1: Multiple Choice Cloze. We put the text with the answers through our English […]
B1, FUTURE, intention, NEGATIVE, plan / allow, argue, beat, become, believe, bother, break, bring, call, comment, complain, cover, cut, discuss, fall, fix, happen, hold, hurt, keep, kill, let, lie, lose, move, PELIC, pretend, save, sell, solve, spend, stand, try, turn, waste, win In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 26 in the category of FUTURE […]
There are over 10 entries in the ACL for the B2 (proof) or C2 (law) noun ‘evidence’. Here we look for those adjectives that only come before ‘evidence’ in the list. A search in COCA for the frequency of these collocations: 1 ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE 1110 (unlisted in the English Vocabulary Profile.) I wanted to put some science to this anecdotal evidence. 2 […]
ADVERBS, B1, emphasis, expectation, perfect, PRESENT, simple, time / achieved, added, adopted, already, announced, applied, attracted, booked, built, caused, committed, completed, covered, created, decided, developed, discovered, discussed, earned, entered, established, experienced, expressed, happened, has, have, implemented, installed, invested, led, lost, mentioned, moved, noted, occurred, passed, pointed, posted, proved, provided, purchased, raised, reached, received, recommended, registered, […]
ADVERBS, C2, expectation, infinitive, VERBS / determine, identify, release, respond, reveal, to, VVI, yet At C2 in the English Vocabulary Profile, is the structure: BE or HAVE + yet + TO-infinitive to express something expected that was not done. For example: This has yet to grow in evidence until it can come to practice. TED A search in the NOW corpus for: _V […]
