GE – English Grammar Profiler
GE refers to the part of speech tag for the possessive ‘s = genetive.
B1, DETERMINERS, irregular, NOUNS, plural, possessive / championship, charity, development, education, GE, issues, literature, NN2, services, singles, track, women
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 44 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: ‘S after irregular plural nouns to indicate possession. Here’s an expert example: Women‘s organizations were active participants from the beginning. (Listen to this sentence) A search in iWeb for: _NN2 _GE _NN We removed those that are not irregular. 1 CHILDREN ‘S HOSPITAL 34865 2 MEN ‘S …
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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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C1, NOUNS, possessive / GE, of
Point 52 in NOUNS/phrases is defined as: POSSESSIVE ‘S WITHOUT NOUN Complex noun phrases with: noun phrase + ‘of’ + noun phrase + possessive determiner ‘s, omitting the noun where it is previously mentioned. A Ted corpus search for {nn} of {nn} * ‘s . She got only one sample of tissue that fit her …
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C1, DETERMINERS, general, possessive / belief, beliefs, community, emotions, faith, GE, identity, income, lifetime, N, one, opponent, personality, PN1, risk, self, surroundings
The English Grammar Profile C1 Point 62 in DETERMINERS/possessives is defined as: ONE’S to indicate possession, referring to people in general. This corresponds to the GSE 71 B2+ one’s as an impersonal possessive adjective. An iWeb search: one _GE _N 1 ONE ‘S LIFE 8388 It’s hard to imagine the rest of one’s life alone. listen 2 ONE ‘S SELF 5224 3 ONE …
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C2 point 69 in DETERMINERS/possessives is defined as: ‘s without a following noun when the noun has already been mentioned or is obvious in the context. A search in iWeb for: The examples in the EGP both contain a possessive adjective too, so we will use this here to help highlight out grammar. _AP _N …
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C2, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, possessive, singular / GE, N, owner, vehicle, women
C2 point 67 in DETERMINERS/possessives is defined as: two possessive ‘s constructions in the same noun phrase. An iWeb search for: _N _GE _N _GE *we removed totally incorrectly tagged results. Many are set names. 1 STATE ‘S ATTORNEY ‘S 1686 4 LADY ‘S CHILDREN ‘S 424 (name of hospital) 6 CHILDREN ‘S HOSPITAL ‘S …
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Usually, the possessive singular noun takes ‘s regardless if it ends in s or not. (Many English users get this wrong.) You are the boss‘s son. (A2 grammar) listen Now, we actually don’t know this species‘ closest relative yet. (C2 grammar) listen C2 point 66 in DETERMINERS/possessives is defined as: apostrophe after singular nouns ending in s, to indicate possession. The English Grammar Profile only …
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A2, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive / ‘s, club, college, company, customer, department, GE, god, king, N, PELIC, queen, team
The English Grammar Profile claims there are over 1000 points in their database. This post is another example of why that it is not true. One of the greatest problems with listing points is finding which category to list them in without merely duplicating the same points. Both the following points are one point at …
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ADJECTIVES, NOUNS, possessive / GE, JJ, JJT, NN1
What does ‘s mean between a noun and an adjective? It is always a genetive marker. It shows possession. WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) LARGEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) LEADING (JJ_VVG) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) BEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) BIGGEST (JJT) NATION (NN1) ‘S (GE) LARGEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) GREATEST (JJT) …
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be, possessive / GE, VBZ, VHZ, VM22
‘s firstly following proper noun as a possessive marker, or contracted ‘is‘. Then it could be ‘has‘ or the second part of a modal: ‘Let‘s go!’ 1 ‘S (GE) 36030994 genetive 2 ‘S (VBZ) 24517319 is 5 ‘S (VHZ) 1063909 has 7 ‘S (VM22) 864498 ‘let’s not’ is B2 If we look at large Ngrams …
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B2, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, possessive / APPGE, GE, my, NN, of, your
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 55 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessives is defined as ‘s after a noun phrase with ‘of’ to indicate possession. There is no mention that there must be no following noun after ‘s However, there is a C2 point that covers an ellipted following noun. For example: …
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