dream – English Grammar Profiler

A2, B1, NOUNS, phrases, possessive, PRONOUNS / ambition, article, blog, brain, classmate, colleague, colleagues, cousin, customer, dream, experience, fan, fault, favourites, fear, friend, friends, girlfriend, goal, habit, heart, hero, hobby, idea, interest, land, mate, member, mind, mine, NN, of, partner, patient, pleasure, post, posts, PPGE, professor, project, recipe, relative, song, story, TLC, uncle, war, worker, yours

Here is another example of overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile. B1 Point 37 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN Which overlaps the more specific B1 point 47 in the category of PRONOUNS: possessive pronoun ‘yours’ after noun + ‘of’. It would be very beneficial …

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ADVERBS, B1, MODALITY, range / add, also, always, become, bring, call, can, check, click, contact, download, dream, even, follow, guess, hope, include, just, keep, mean, offer, only, PELIC, really, RR, save, serve, set, still, try, view, VVI

Point 120 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘can’ with a limited range of adverbs (including ‘also’, ‘always’, ‘even’, ‘just’, ‘only’, ‘really’, ‘still’) in the normal mid position after the modal verb. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Some old people can only sit on the wheelchair. Chinese female level 3 writing class. A search on iWeb for: can_VM also|always|even|just|only|really|still _VVI 1 CAN …

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B1, informal, QUESTIONS, tags / amazing, awesome, by, cool, crazy, dream, enough, far, mean, means, news, out, point, pretty, reason, right, simple, so, somewhere, sounds, true, while

Point 16 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: ‘RIGHT’ AS AN INFORMAL TAG in informal contexts. A search in iWeb for: * * , right ? 1 I KNOW , RIGHT ? 1260 2 MAKES SENSE , RIGHT ? 866 3 PRETTY COOL , RIGHT ? 735   National Law Review New Jersey …

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