determiners Archives – Page 3 of 4 – English Grammar Pro

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 […]

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 […]

iWeb search for B1 1 THEIR LIVES 325158 2 THEIR WAY 262764 3 THEIR CHILDREN 216153 4 THEIR WORK 213183 5 THEIR FAMILIES 209014 6 THEIR HOME 163269 7 THEIR TIME 157752 8 THEIR BUSINESS 143531 9 THEIR PARENTS 129414 10 THEIR WEBSITE 119786 11 THEIR HANDS 116015 12 THEIR PRODUCTS 110206 13 THEIR CUSTOMERS […]

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 ‘ […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Where to start teaching noun phrases to your beginner to pre-intermediate class?

Here are my top 10 vocabulary items I would teach alongside “very few” to an upper-intermediate class.