favourites – 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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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity / a, activities, advantages, areas, attempts, benefits, cases, comments, companies, details, dozen, favourites, few, generations, guys, hundred, ideas, inches, issues, items, locations, members, methods, miles, million, millions, NN, occasions, of, options, pieces, points, products, projects, reasons, seconds, several, songs, steps, thoughts, thousand, tips, TLC, topics, types, ways

Point 39 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: wide range of quantifying determiners with plural nouns (‘several’, ‘millions of’, ‘a few of’). *Note that if ‘millions of’ is used as hyperbole, then it is a C1 point. TLC, Speaking test examples: There are very few sports cars in Sri Lanka. We don’t really take those out on the roads. …

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