common – English Grammar Profiler

ADJECTIVES, B1, DETERMINERS, modify, PRONOUNS, substitution / a, common, correct, current, D, earlier, existing, few, JJ, larger, lucky, main, major, obvious, ones, original, particular, PELIC, previous, real, several, whose

Point 40 in the category of PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as: determiners + premodifers + ‘ones’ PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: (referring to outdoor activities) I think Bodrum has the best ones. Turkish, Male, Level 3, Writing Class. A search in iWeb for: _A _J ones 1 THE ONLY ONES 45418 2 YOUR LOVED ONES 30909 3 THEIR LOVED ONES 22398 4 THE …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, general, modify, PRONOUNS, substitution / basic, certain, common, correct, dead, earlier, existing, free, fresh, future, healthy, JJ, large, larger, local, lower, lucky, main, modern, natural, negative, NN2, normal, obvious, ones, original, PELIC, popular, positive, previous, real, recent, regular, remaining, similar, simple, smart, SPECIAL, successful, tiny, top, traditional, wild

Point 50 in the category of PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as: premodifiers with ‘ones’, to refer to something in general. An iWeb search for: _JJ ones 1 LOVED ONES 102997 2 NEW ONES 78751 3 LITTLE ONES 58655 4 ONLY ONES 46742 5 GOOD ONES 26844 6 OLD ONES 24098 7 OTHER ONES 16209 8 SMALLER …

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B1, complements, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reciprocal, VERBS / ABLE, against, along, attracted, away, common, communicate, compete, competition, connect, connected, contact, distance, each, far, feelings, front, II, independent, look out, mirror, off, other, relation, respect, share, similar, so, TLC, top, touch, VV, war

Point 60 in the category of PRONOUNS/reciprocal is defined as: ‘each other’ as the object of a verb or complement of a preposition to talk about the mutual behaviour of two or more people. An iWeb search for: * * * each other 1 ON TOP OF EACH OTHER 13130 (note that many of these …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives / common, confident, could, decided, discovered, glad, grateful, high, JJ, large, low, popular, powerful, so, strong, successful, that

Point 83 in CLAUSES/comparatives  is defined as:  ‘so’ + adjective + ‘that’ clause. An iWeb search for: so _J that * * 1 SO GLAD THAT I DID 776 2 SO HAPPY THAT I FOUND 449 3 SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 424 4 SO GLAD THAT I FOUND 419 5 SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU …

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C1, DETERMINERS, NEGATIVE, PRONOUNS / access, all, common, convinced, created, equal, every, everyone, everything, not, PELIC, products, surprising, willing, XX

Point 26 in the category of NEGATION is defined as: ‘not’ with indefinite pronouns ‘everyone’ and ‘everything’ and determiners ‘every’, ‘all’ For example: Not everyone is always looking for easier. (more context) Besides, not everyone needs a decent education. (more context) PELIC student example: level 3 Portugese female: Finally, not all things you think to do in this world can turn out in the way you try to do them. A search in iWeb corpus for: …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, NOUNS, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / challenging, common, efficient, II, JJ, likely, method, PELIC, recent, rgt, _AT

Point 37 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: an increasing range of complex noun phrases with a superlative adjective + prepositional phrase, to talk about something unique. A search on iWeb for: _AT _RGT _JJ _N _I   1 THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF 16690 2 THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF 11789 PELIC …

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B1, B2, CLAUSES, comparatives, complex, emphasis, non-finite, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / allowing, being, common, creating, exception, focusing, forced, II21, II22, rather, rule, series, than, TLC

Let’s look at how ‘rather than‘ is used to compare.  In the English Vocabulary Profile, at B1 the meaning is:  ‘instead of ‘ I‘d like coffee rather than tea. I usually wear a swimsuit rather than shorts. In the above examples: coffee, tea, a swimsuit, shorts are nouns or noun phrases, so ‘rather than‘ or ‘instead of‘ are complex prepositions. Here’s a student example …

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ADJECTIVES, article, B2, modify, superlative / best, by, common, easiest, effective, far, impressive, JJT, largest, majority, most, popular, significant, the, widely

Point 62 in the category of adjectives in the English Grammar Profile.

A2, ADJECTIVES, article, B2, ellipsis, NOUNS, range, superlative / best, brightest, busiest, common, coolest, deepest, disadvantages, driest, earliest, eldest, farthest, fittest, furthest, healthiest, heaviest, highest, JJT, largest, loudest, lowest, most, of, one, prettiest, quietest, rarest, richest, scariest, sharpest, simplest, smartest, smoothest, softest, strangest, strongest, tastiest, the, thinnest, TLC, weakest, widest

Which superlative adjective should we learn at higher levels?