enough – English Grammar Profiler
A2, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / ABLE, call, case, complete, cool, enough, fair, if, not, out, PELIC, so, such, surprise, surprised, take, without, would, XX
Point 15 in MODALITY is defined: would negative forms *It is incredibly hard to find an example that is not already a part of another grammar point. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I’m convinced that it wouldn’t take much time to change the system and think about how to add new things in order to help people to start the workday in a more enjoyable manner. French male level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: would _XX * * * 1 WOULD NOT BE …
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A2, affirmative, auxiliary, CLAUSES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, simple, VERBS / BE, correct, did, do, enough, fair, have, interested, kidding, perfect, planning, serious, sure, true, trying, VB, VD, VH, VVG, XX, you
Here is another group of A2 English Grammar Profile points that overlap multiple categories. Many of these could be all merged into one point. Point 3 in the category of QUESTIONS: yes/no AUXILIARY ‘BE’ + subject + the continuous A search in NOW corpus for: _VB _P _VVG 1 ARE YOU GOING 38887 2 ARE …
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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, 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, quantity, range / a, battle, career, century, challenge, characters, cost, difference, enough, field, following, half, information, island, none, of, options, original, patients, population, race, reason, remaining, screen, season, story, team, third, TLC, top, total, usual
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 Point 37 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: DETERMINER + ‘OF’ + DETERMINER – an increasing range of quantifying determiners (‘half of’, ‘enough of’, ‘none of”) *However, this partly clashes with the B2 Negation point for ‘none of’ FOR EXAMPLE: I can’t get enough of that feeling, and that’s why I learn a language every two years. …
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B1, complements, MODALITY, VERBS / additional, another, BE, could, enough, EX, fewer, less, might, must, nothing, opportunities, plenty, several, shall, should, there, VBI, VM
Point 35 in the category of Verbs is defined as: ‘there’ with a range of modal verbs + ‘be’ + complement. A search in iWeb for: there_E _VM be * 1 THERE WILL BE A 135620 2 THERE WILL BE NO 66994 3 THERE MAY BE A 43753 4 THERE WOULD BE NO 37614 5 …
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B1, NEGATIVE, NOUNS, VERBS / difference, else, enough, even, EX, if, information, just, memory, NN, PELIC, point, reason, set, single, so, space, there, VB, way, whole, XX, yet
Point 41 in the category of VERBS is defined as: NEGATIVE: ‘There’ + ‘be’ + ‘n’t’ with countable and uncountable nouns. A search in iWeb for: there_E _VB _XX * * 1 THERE ‘S NOT A LOT 6543 2 THERE IS NOT A LOT 4009 3 THERE IS NOT A SINGLE 3817 4 THERE IS …
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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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ADVERBS, C1, degree, initial, intensity, modify, position, stance / appropriately, barely, closely, deeply, effectively, enough, firmly, funnily, highly, innocently, interestingly, naturally, oddly, PELIC, rapidly, RR, sadly, simply, soon, stiff, strangely, strongly, surely, thoroughly, tightly
Usually, when ‘enough’ is used as a postmodifying adverb (after another adverb), it means ‘to the necessary degree.’ However in the English Grammar Profile, C1 point 58 in adverbs/phrases is defined as: post-modify adverbs with ‘enough to intensify’. The English Grammar Profile examples are all stance adverbs in the initial position: Strangely enough, Luckily enough, Sadly …
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ADJECTIVES, B1, modify / brave, enough, JJ, PELIC, powerful, smart
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 43 in ADJECTIVES is defined as: ‘ENOUGH’ to modify an ADJECTIVE *if the enough is followed by TO-infinitive, this structure is B2. A search in iWeb for: _JJ enough 1 GOOD ENOUGH 166044 2 LUCKY ENOUGH 76058 3 LARGE ENOUGH 72118 4 BIG ENOUGH 68590 PELIC STUDENT: Turkish female level …
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B2 English Grammar Profile point 89 in the category of PRONOUNS/ quantity is defined as: ‘each’, ‘either’, ‘enough’, ‘neither’, ‘several’ as subject and object pronouns. Two examples from PELIC B2/C1 students: subject pronoun object pronoun Although these vocabulary items are easy to find, they usually are not acting as subjects or objects. This makes finding …
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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B2, CLAUSES, comparatives, infinitive / allow, attend, beat, brave, contain, enough, figure, flexible, fortunate, gentle, handle, JJ, lucky, melt, PELIC, provide, realize, RR, smart, support, to, unfortunate, unlucky, VVI
Upper-Intermediate students can post modify ADJECTIVEs with to-infinitive