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Point 5 in the category of FOCUS is defined as: ‘The thing, fact, point, problem, or reason + is (that)’ for focus. Brisbane Times The thing is that any additional money you have sitting directly in your mortgage is not safe for you to access any time. Warrnambool Standard The fact is, high carbon […]

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 […]

This is a piece of incomplete research starting with verbs which are at their lowest sense at B1. We theorize that if these verbs can be used with collocations, then it shows a higher ability than just B1. This is a tedious project of research that will take a great deal of time. For now […]

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 […]

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 ‘ […]