energy – English Grammar Profiler

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, quantity, range, uncountable / a, action, advice, air, analysis, assistance, attention, background, bit, cash, damage, data, detail, development, difference, discussion, education, effort, energy, enough, evidence, experience, far, further, history, information, knowledge, laundry, little, loads, luck, much, notice, of, oil, opportunity, patience, PELIC, planning, plenty, power, practice, pressure, protein, research, sense, space, storage, stuff, testing, too, trouble, weight

The English Grammar Profile claims that there are over 1000 grammar points in its inventory.  However, there are numerous points that are overlapping.  This post shows 3 posts that overlap. B1 Point 34 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: uncountable nouns with an increasing range of determiners/quantity words and phrases including ‘much’, ‘a …

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B1, complex, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive / actor, advocate, affairs, agents, agriculture, appeal, appeals, appearance, art, aspects, association, attention, author, award, awareness, bench, billions, block, campaign, cards, case, celebration, champion, choir, clubs, collection, college, commerce, costume, council, couple, court, department, diploma, director, directors, division, earth, education, election, employment, energy, episode, experience, fame, fees, GE, graduate, hall, health, history, institute, journal, judgment, justice, king, landing, literature, medicine, member, members, million, minds, NN, oak, of, office, PELIC, percent, pounds, proposal, quality, queen, rights, sciences, season, secretary, series, services, society, state, surface, survey, taxpayers, team, thrones, transition, veteran, veterans, wage, waste, workers, worth, WRITER

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 42 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: complex noun phrases with noun phrase + ‘of’ + noun phrase + possessive determiner ‘s + noun phrase.   PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Our chairs are on the opposite side of the doctor’s chair,  in front of the desk. Chinese female, Level 3 Writing Class. An iWeb search for: _NN of _NN _GE _NN …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, uncountable / air, alcohol, attention, beauty, blood, choice, competition, control, credit, damage, detail, difficulty, effort, energy, excitement, fuel, heat, history, hope, information, interest, knowledge, liquid, material, much, NN1, oil, pain, PELIC, power, respect, sense, so, space, stress, stuff, success, support, talent, TLC, too, trouble, value, variety, weight

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 51 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘SO MUCH’, ‘TOO MUCH’ WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS too|so much _NN1 1 SO MUCH FUN 51051 2 SO MUCH MONEY 13915 3 TOO MUCH MONEY 12901 4 TOO MUCH TROUBLE 10270 5 TOO MUCH WORK 9680 6 TOO MUCH PRESSURE 8394 7 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, range / action, activities, applications, areas, attention, cases, chances, choice, choices, companies, customers, energy, enough, exercise, experience, guys, ideas, information, instances, kids, loads, most, NN, of, opportunities, opportunity, options, organizations, parking, patients, PELIC, plenty, points, power, reasons, research, rest, sense, situations, space, sunshine, support, TLC, types, users, value, ways

B1 Point 43 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with both plural nouns and uncountable nouns (‘most’, ‘enough’, ‘plenty of’, ‘loads of’). *This overlaps another B1 point. PELIC WRITING CLASS EXAMPLES: Most students eat lunch and dinner in a cafeteria. Korean, Female, Level 3   In addition, the people who lived in Korea 100 years ago didn’t have enough transportation. Korean, Male, Level 3   *Note that …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, QUESTIONS, uncountable / air, alcohol, attention, blood, cash, choice, competition, control, credit, damage, detail, difference, difficulty, effort, energy, excitement, exercise, experience, flour, fuel, gas, gold, hate, heat, information, interest, liquid, material, memory, much, NN1, oil, pain, power, sense, sex, space, stress, stuff, success, talent, tax, traffic, trouble, value, weight

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 40 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘much’ with uncountable nouns in interrogative contexts. A search in iWeb corpus for: much _NN1 ? 1 MUCH MONEY ? 942 2 MUCH FUN ? 462 3 MUCH WATER ? 400 4 MUCH DIFFERENCE ? 352 5 MUCH POWER ? 289 …

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