article – English Grammar Profiler
Point 47 in DETERMINERS/articles is defined as: ‘THE OTHER’ with a singular noun to refer to the second or the opposite of two things, and with a plural noun to refer to one of a set of things. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: After a while, I thought that it was better to move to the other house. Korean, Female, Level 5, Writing Class TLC SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: …
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Point 36 in DETERMINERs/articles is defined as: ‘the’ + adjectives in a noun phrase, to specify An iWeb search: the _JJ _NN 1 THE OTHER HAND 459204 2 THE BEST WAY 361919 3 THE ONLY WAY 263862 Chinese,Female,4,g That is the only way to avoid the noise disturbing me. 4 THE OTHER SIDE 258462 5 THE ONLY THING 254602 6 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT …
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At B1 there are many points covering the use of ‘another’. Considering that they are all at the same level, one is not sure why there are so many different entries. Points 38, 41, 53 in DETERMINERS/articles are defined as: ‘another’ to talk about something additional. ‘another’ with singular nouns. ‘another’ to talk about something …
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Point 28 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with singular nouns (‘each’, ‘an’, ‘one’ and numbers) each|an|one _NN1 1 ONE THING 587964 2 AN EXAMPLE 440517 3 AN OPPORTUNITY 390589 4 AN EMAIL 364587 5 AN ISSUE 358269 6 AN AREA 254162 Pelic students: Female,3,w Earthquakes destroy everything in an area and stir up dust from the destruction . 7 …
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1 IS (VBZ) ALSO (RR) A (AT1) 431112 2 IS (VBZ) JUST (RR) A (AT1) 186187 3 IS (VBZ) STILL (RR) A (AT1) 126059 4 IS (VBZ) ALWAYS (RR) A (AT1) 99232 5 WAS (VBDZ) ALSO (RR) A (AT1) 98531 6 ‘S (VBZ) JUST (RR) A (AT1) 96851 7 ‘S (VBZ) ALSO (RR) A (AT1) …
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You might know how ‘the’ is used as an article. But did you know all the different phrases it is found in?
This is another post about two overlapping English Grammar Profile points at the same proficiency level that could be merged into one. Point 11 in the category of FOCUS is defined as: ‘Not a’ + noun with a passive verb or inverted auxiliary and subject for focus. Point 29 in the category of NEGATION: ‘not …
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Point 65 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: ‘many a’ or ‘many an’ + singular noun for emphasis and focus. *We noticed that this phrase often gets used at the start of sentences. A search on iWeb corpus for many _at1 _nn: 1 MANY A TIME 3162 India Times Indian …
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There are many points that relate to ‘NO ARTICLE’ in the English Grammar Profile. Although there are overlapping examples across some of the levels, the main difference in regards to marking complexity relies on the level of the vocabulary used. For this reason, it is probably better to rely more on the English Vocabulary Profile …
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Point 56 in the category of DETERMINERS and articles is defined as “the” in comparative phrases ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘worse’, ‘better’ * the more’, ‘less’, ‘worse’ * to talk about one thing that is affected by another. comparative clauses A search on iWeb for the _rgr shows that ‘the more’ is much more common than ‘the …
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Superlatives and infinitives for upper-intermediate students.
Point 62 in the category of adjectives in the English Grammar Profile.
In the English Grammar Profile, Point 61 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: adjective phrases with ‘rather a’ + adjective, often in formal contexts A search in iWeb for rather a _JJ 1 RATHER A LONG 392 Further collocates 4 to the left and right: 1 TIME (NNT1 ) 187 2 WAY (NN1 …
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Where to start teaching noun phrases to your beginner to pre-intermediate class?