AT1 – English Grammar Profiler

While searching for structures in the English Vocabulary Profile, we sometimes find structures we are not sure why they are listed at a certain complexity.  For example: walk NOUN A2 a journey that you make by walking, often for enjoyment a short/ten-minute, etc. walk = B2 a journey that takes a short time/ten minutes, etc. …

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Here are two examples showing a limited range of determiners: A man had A problem.

EVERY person wanted to play A game.

Here are a few examples of determiners premodified by intensifiers. There are hardly any phone booths left in this city.   TLC male India B1 We have nearly all the big automobile companies. TLC male India, B1   It took me virtually no time at all. Listen to this expert example B1 point 48 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: modify determiners with adverbs. There is clashing information in the English Grammar Profile.  The example …

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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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