gift – English Grammar Profiler

A2, exclamations, NOUNS, phrases / a, brilliant, difference, fantastic, gift, guy, idea, JJ, mistake, NN, off, pain, PELIC, perfect, piece, pity, pleasant, shame, story, surprise, way, what, wonderful

Point 38 in the category of CLAUSES/exclamations: ‘What a’ + noun phrase and ‘What a’ + noun phrase + clause PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: What a trip it was. Japanese female level 5 grammar class. An iWeb search for: . What a * * 1 . WHAT A GREAT WAY 1759 2 . WHAT A WASTE OF 1402 3 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, informal, NOUNS, quantity, spoken, uncountable / a, advice, air, bit, blood, break, care, cash, cooler, DA1, detail, difference, exercise, gift, guy, history, honey, hope, information, JJ, lemon, little, luck, magic, NN, of, oil, pain, PELIC, piece, plastic, practice, push, rest, side, slice, space, story, variety, video, way

Point 49 in DETERMINERS is defined as: quantifying determiners with uncountable nouns, often in informal and/or spoken contexts (‘a little’, ‘a bit of’ and ‘a little bit of’) *note, ‘little’ is hard to tag as a determiner and not an adjective.  Also, we believe that pronouns and other determiners should be allowed since they refer …

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alternative, B1, phrases, QUESTIONS / a, across, around, bug, by, cloud, company, during, environment, female, field, flu, fridge, future, gift, ground, hobby, I, kids, middle, mix, mountains, NN, office, or, over, scenes, service, side, store, studio, team, top, workout

Point 22 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions with two phrases combined with ‘or’. If we follow the patterns in the EGP examples and search in iWeb with them: or _I _A _NN ? 1 OR IN THE FUTURE? 152 EXAMPLE: 3 missguided.co.uk Where can we see you perform next or in the future? 2 OR OVER THE PHONE? …

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