II21 – English Grammar Profiler
ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS / II, II21, RP, RR
‘Along’ is a preposition or an adverb. 1 ALONG (II21) 1742449 2 ALONG (II) 812587 4 ALONG (RP) 476307 6 ALONG (RR) 11996
ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS / II21, JJ, RL, RP, RR22, RR44
1 AWAY (RL) 3176947 3 AWAY (II21) 411361 5 AWAY (RR22) 51010 7 AWAY (JJ) 17013 9 AWAY (RP) 3475 10 AWAY (RR44) 1674
CONJUNCTIONS, PREPOSITIONS, VERBS / CS, CS21, II, II21, VV0
1 EXCEPT (II21) 293202 2 EXCEPT (CS) 258109 5 EXCEPT (CS21) 101718 6 EXCEPT (II) 26138 14 EXCEPT (VV0%) 638
ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS, PREPOSITIONS / CS21, II21, RG, RR
1 RATHER (II21) 956100 2 RATHER (RG) 529786 ‘Rather’ as a degree adverb usually modifies an adjective. 1 BUT (CCB) RATHER (RG_RR@) A (AT1) 22044 2 A (AT1) RATHER (RG) LARGE (JJ) 7161 3 BUT (CCB) RATHER (RG_RR@) AN (AT1) 4810 4 IS (VBZ) RATHER (RG) A (AT1) 2921 5 , (,) RATHER (RG_RR@) A …
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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS / II, II21, JJ, JJ22, RP, RR21
1 (RP) ‘off’ is an adverb particle most often and often appears followed by punctuation, a preposition or conjunction. 4 OFF (II) 1161417 PHRASES: 5 OFF of (II21) 6 ‘OFF’ is found as an adjective before a noun. ‘off season’. (JJ%) 8 OFF (JJ22) 31880 11 OFF (RR21) 15526 1 IT (PPH1) OFF (RP) …
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ADVERBS, but, CONJUNCTIONS, PREPOSITIONS / CCB, CS, II, II21, RR22
But’ is usually a conjunction. It is also used in phrases as a preposition or adverb. 1 (CCB) 3 (RR22) 5 (II21) 6 (II) 7 (CS)
ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS / II, II21, II41, JJ31, RL22, RP
1 OUT (RP) 20851854 2 OUT (II21) 6205930 5 OUT (II) 60571 7 OUT (JJ31) 27957 8 OUT (RL22) 21485 10 OUT (II41) 9374 12 OUT (JJ22) 1800
PREPOSITIONS / II21, II22
1 OUT (II21) OF (II22) 6044503 2 SUCH (II21) AS (II22) 5449751 3 ACCORDING (II21) TO (II22) 2869261 4 DUE (II21) TO (II22) 2384806 5 BECAUSE (II21) OF (II22) 2052897 6 UP (II21) TO (II22) 1826998 7 ALONG (II21) WITH (II22) 1692520 8 INSTEAD (II21) OF (II22) 1335372 9 PRIOR (II21) TO (II22) 1110670 10 …
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ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS / II, II21, JJ31, RP
1 UP (RP) 3 (II21) ‘up to’ is listed at B1 as complex prepositions. 4 (RG21) 6 (JJ31) up to date 7 UP (II) 151922 9 UP (RL21) 84386 11 UP (JJ22) 47065 13 UP (NN122) 30785 22 UP (VV0%) 8620 27 UP (JJ41) 2944 31 UP (JJ21) 1968 35 UP (VVI) 817
A2, B1, B2, C1, complex, formal, PREPOSITIONS / account, addition, ahead, apart, due, except, for, from, II21, II22, II31, II32, II33, in, instead, near, of, on, outside, spite, thanks, to, up
Firstly, complex prepositions are phrases, which means there are two or more words to them. For example: In addition to imitation, there are a number of other procedures designed to give the therapist some degree of control over the child‘s language production. The Louvain EAP dictionary ‘in addition to’ is used to add new information and introduces the point to which you want to add something new. Prepositional complexity is found at different levels …
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B2, C2, complements, expectation, FUTURE, GSE, infinitive, instruction, MODALITY, obligation, schedule / bound, certain, due, II21, II22, likely, meant, obliged to, sure, to, VB, VVI, will
In the English Grammar Profile (EGP), there are three similar points in the category of Future expressions with ‘BE’ at B2 in the English Grammar Profile. 47 ‘be due to’ and, more formally, ‘be to’ talk about things that are scheduled or expected. 53 OBLIGATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH ‘BE TO’ 56 present form of ‘be’ …
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B1, B2, CLAUSES, comparatives, complex, emphasis, non-finite, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / allowing, being, common, creating, exception, focusing, forced, II21, II22, rather, rule, series, than, TLC
Let’s look at how ‘rather than‘ is used to compare. In the English Vocabulary Profile, at B1 the meaning is: ‘instead of ‘ I‘d like coffee rather than tea. I usually wear a swimsuit rather than shorts. In the above examples: coffee, tea, a swimsuit, shorts are nouns or noun phrases, so ‘rather than‘ or ‘instead of‘ are complex prepositions. Here’s a student example …
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