B2 Archives – Page 6 of 12 – English Grammar Pro

The B2 Point 4 in the category of FOCUS is defined as ‘The reason (that)’, ‘The place (which)’ + clause as subject + ‘be’ for focus. *although the verb ‘be’ is probably the most common, for complexity, we should also accept any verb after the clause. Hindustan Times The reason that less number of workers […]

Point 10 in DISCOURSE MARKERS in writing is defined as: a range of phrases as discourse markers to introduce a comparison. There are three examples of these in the English Grammar Profile. Similarly Collocates of ‘Similarly‘ (word ranking: 2809) in the COCA corpus: situate, price, size, equip, treat, affect, dress, behave, respectively, configure, dramatic and it is very Academic. TechNewsWorld Tech’s Role […]

Point 9 in the category of DISCOURSE MARKERS in writing is defined as: range of phrases as discourse markers to summarise. (Note ‘therefore’ is B1 in EVP) IWeb search for ‘Thus|Consequently|Hence|Therefore’ + collocates up to 4 spaces to the right: 1 THEREFORE 1633873 1 RECOMMENDED 4764 2 ESSENTIAL 4561 2 THUS 1485858 (1 FAR 82646) […]

Point 8 in the category of DISCOURSE MARKERS in writing is defined as a: range of phrases as discourse markers to open and close texts and point to conclusions, often in formal contexts. From the examples in the EGP searched in iWeb: The most common collocates up to 4 spaces to the right:

Point 59 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: modifier + ‘little’ + uncountable nouns and modifier + ‘few’ + countable nouns, to indicate a lack of something or not as much as expected of something. We also have an earlier post for ‘very few + noun.’ _RG\w* (little|few) _NN 1 VERY […]

The use of ‘their’ is confusing to give level to, because there is differing information between the English Vocabulary and Grammar Profiles, and secondly the uses are hard to locate in corpora automatically. At B2, Point 58 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessive is defined as: GENERIC ‘THEIR’ before nouns to refer to a […]

Point 57 in the category of DETERMINERS that are possessive is defined as PLURAL NOUN + S’ Our top 25 examples in iWeb corpus for _nn2 ‘ are: 1 STUDENTS ‘ 101378 2 CUSTOMERS ‘ 52666 3 PARENTS ‘ 52218 4 KIDS ‘ 51230 KIDS ‘ CLUB 1494 5 WORKERS ‘ 46708 6 GIRLS ‘ […]

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 […]

Point 55 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessives is defined as ‘s after a noun phrase with ‘of’ to indicate possession. There is no mention that there must be no following noun after ‘s It also overlaps point 46 in NOUNS and phrases, defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE DETERMINER + NOUN + […]

Point 54 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessives is defined as possessive determiner ‘its’ before nouns to refer to a singular inanimate subject or object. Search for clusters that are not a mistake for ‘it is’ on iWeb corpus: ITS WAY TO THE 11703 ITS KIND IN THE 11249 ITS OWN RIGHT . 10405 […]