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When ESL teachers look at student texts they often intuitively notice like all native speakers of a language that which is inaccurate. Yet, B1 is the level that most General English students are in and are also taking on most of the new language and also making most the errors. It is easy to mark […]

Point 35 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: prepositional phrase after the main noun in a noun phrase. We can roughly follow the EGP examples with the following code: _[AJD] _n _i _[AJD] _n (but iWeb doesn’t allow alternates in []) Also we have discovered as of 4/12/2020 that iWeb works better with […]

Point 55 in PAST simple after ‘if’ as a politeness structure, especially in letters and emails. All the examples given in the EGP follow the structure: would be (_rg) _JJ _CS * _VVD Sadly, iWeb corpus software does not allow the above search because it is too wide for their software. Searching for collocates to […]

Point 52 at B2 in the category of PAST simple QUESTIONS is defined as: yes/no’, ‘wh-‘, tag and negative question forms with an increasing range of verbs. There is great confusion trying to differentiate this across levels from other points on the EGP. *Point 63 Past simple negative wide range of verbs and point 29 […]

Compared to looking at the -able suffix endings which were very advanced vocabulary. We mean beyond what most general English classes would need to learn. The ‘-al’ suffixes are all around the B levels or intermediate. Therefore this list is a good list of adjectives for students to learn that are around intermediate. We found […]

“This post is brought to you by English Grammar Pro. ” The previous sentence is an example of B2 level grammar. If that interests you, then read on. There are a few points in the category of PASSIVES and verbs taking two objects that overlap and clash for which CEFR level they indicate. Before trying […]

In this grammar research post, we have collected all the B1 verbs that go after necessary.

There are three overlapping points in the category of FUTURE CONTINUOUS. Point 9 is A2 and defined as: AFFIRMATIVE WITH ‘WILL’ Which is elaborated with usage at the same level at point 21: FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS with ‘will’ to talk about an event or action in progress at a specified time in the future. However, point […]

The only point for A2 CONJUNCTIONS is point 8, which is defined as: a limited range of simple subordinating conjunctions ‘(if, when, so, while)’ to introduce a subordinate clause. An iWeb corpus search for three spaces in if|when|so|while * * * _v *Note ‘so’ is also listed at B1 as greater range. 1 IF YOU […]

Point 4 in the category of passives is defined as: an infinitive after a limited number of forms including ‘going to’, ‘have to’, ‘need to’, ‘want to’. We did a very open search for _v to be _vvn on iWeb corpus, so many of the listed below do no meet our criteria. 1 REMAINS TO […]