AP – English Grammar Profiler

ADVERBS, C2, comment / AP, chagrin, delight, dismay, much, NN, relief, surprise, to

Much to my surprise,  and Much to the surprise of someone, are ‘comment adverbial phrases’.  This structure is not listed in the English Vocabulary or Grammar Profile, so we turn to the Longman dictionary: FORMAL used to say that someone feels very surprised, embarrassed etc when something happens A search in NOW corpus for: . …

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ADJECTIVES, NOUNS, phrases, plural, possessive, PREPOSITIONS / AP, bare, endeavours, hands, his, I, JJ, NN2, respective, with 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 iWeb corpus for: _XX _VV a word 1 N’T SAY A WORD 1726 Don’t say a word against my father. listen 2 NOT SAY A WORD 756 3 N’T UNDERSTAND A WORD 608 It was brilliant, even though I didn’t understand a word of it. listen 4 N’T BELIEVE A …

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A2, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive, quantity / AP, colleagues, customers, D, few, files, guests, information, IO, members, most, NN, of, posts, several, staff

A2 Point 29 in DETERMINERS is defined: quantifying determiners + possessive determiners + ‘of’ + noun. (noun phrases) *There are other A2 determiner grammar points that are less specific,  not requiring quantity or possession. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: In fact, some of my habits are changed by my mood. Arabic male level 3 writing class. An iWeb search for: _D of _AP _NN …

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