article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / advantage, approach, area, areas, benefit, case, challenge, characters, choice, companies, company, difference, form, guests, guy, guys, idea, ingredients, issue, item, items, kids, line, members, method, NN, of, option, options, other, PELIC, piece, point, possibility, products, reason, sections, set, side, solution, stuff, team, teams, the, type, types, way In the English […]
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. Here’s an expert example: Women‘s organizations were active participants from the beginning. (Listen to this sentence) A search in iWeb […]
C2, NOUNS, possessive, PRONOUNS / acquaintance, client, concern, hers, his, N, of, passion, PPGE, strength, theirs In the English Grammar Profile, C2 point 113 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: possessive pronouns ‘hers’, ‘theirs’ and ‘his’ after noun + ‘of’. A search in iWeb for: _N of his_P . 1 FRIEND OF HIS. 504 2 […]
advice, B1, CLAUSES, conditional, imagine, opinion, PAST, regret / added, decided, followed, forgot, grew, had, happened, if, invested, lost, meant, PELIC, received, tried, VVN, would Here is another post of some overlapping and clashing grammar points from different categories in the English Grammar Profile. B1 point 72 clashes with the general definition at C1. B1 […]
A2, alternative, QUESTIONS / advice, alcohol, alive, blog, cigarettes, colleague, college, comments, concerns, dead, directly, drugs, fact, failure, fake, false, female, fiction, goods, high, ideas, improvements, indirectly, internally, large, literally, low, male, negative, negatively, office, once, or, password, personally, positive, positively, pounds, product, products, quickly, real, service, services, slowly, success, suggestions, tablet, thoughts, tips, tricks, […]
alternative, annoyance, B1, CLAUSES, impatience, NEGATIVE, QUESTIONS, substitution / among, believe, case, correct, difference, earning, election, future, god, idea, issue, normal, not, or, PELIC, president, real, true, truth, worth, XX In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 23 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions using ‘or not’ to substitute for a clause, sometimes […]
ADVERBS, B1, FUTURE / actually, also, always, certainly, clearly, definitely, either, ever, finally, just, likely, never, obviously, only, probably, really, RR, still, surely, VB, VVGK In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 34 in the category of FUTURE: ‘be going to’ with a limited range of adverbs, after the auxiliary be form, in the normal mid position. […]
ADVERBS, infinitive / build, create, deal, expect, explain, handle, how, know, learn, manage, set, to, turn, use, VVI, what, when, where The WH-adverbs: such as ‘how’, ‘when’, ‘where’, and ‘why’ are often called ‘question words’ because they typically introduce interrogative sentences. However, in this post, we look at the way they introduce other clauses: A […]
ADJECTIVES, B1, complements, object, position / easy, happy, JJR, make, matters, me, P, sad, sick, them, to, us, worse, you In the English Grammar Profile, point 52 at B1 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: adjectives as object complement after ‘make’. *However, this clashes with B2: where ‘it’ introduces a reference. *Note, if you capitalise your […]
C2, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / ask, can, could, expect, not, say, tell, understand, very, VM, VVI, well, XX In the English Vocabulary Profile at C2: can’t/couldn’t very well do sth = used to say that something is not a suitable or practical thing to do A search in the iWeb corpus for: _VM _XX very well […]
B1, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PRESENT, simple / accepted, advised, allowed, am, approved, are, based, broken, built, called, charged, checked, completed, connected, considered, counted, covered, created, designed, displayed, expected, fixed, held, included, installed, intended, is, limited, located, lost, meant, mentioned, not, offered, permitted, prepared, protected, provided, received, recognized, recommended, registered, removed, required, satisfied, saved, selected, set, shared, […]
B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, add, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, assign, become, believe, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, copy, cover, display, enter, exceed, exist, experience, fit, function, happen, hold, include, lead, match, matter, may, mean, modify, not, notice, occur, offer, operate, participate, PELIC, perform, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, […]
A2, B1, MODALITY, necessity, NOUNS, obligation, PRONOUNS, range / account, application, applications, candidate, candidates, care, companies, company, court, customer, customers, documents, employee, employees, employer, employers, entries, file, form, forms, guests, I, individual, information, items, leaders, manager, managers, materials, member, members, must, NN, notice, order, orders, organization, organizations, owner, owners, patient, patients, PELIC, plan, product, products, […]
B1, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PRESENT, simple / accepted, advised, allowed, am, approved, are, based, broken, built, called, charged, checked, completed, connected, considered, counted, covered, created, designed, displayed, expected, fixed, held, included, installed, intended, is, limited, located, lost, meant, mentioned, not, offered, permitted, prepared, protected, provided, received, recognized, recommended, registered, removed, required, satisfied, saved, selected, set, shared, […]
