largest – English Grammar Profiler

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, superlative / busiest, deadliest, highest, JJT, largest, strongest, toughest, worst, yet

In the English Vocabulary Profile at B2, the best/worst, etc. yet the best or worst, etc. until now A search in NOW CORPUS: _A _JJT yet . 1 THE BEST YET. 843 2 THE BIGGEST YET. 321 3 HIS BEST YET. 282 4 OUR BEST YET. 194 5 THE WORST YET. 156 6 THEIR BEST …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, singular, superlative / baseball, building, coach, college, companies, fashion, highest, II, in, JJT, largest, latest, mind, mountain, NN, north, office, program, record, richest, seat, seats, south, story, team, teams, views, worst

Point 11 in the category of ADJECTIVES: prepositional phrases with ‘in’ + singular name of a place after a superlative adjective. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I am not shy with girls, I always tell my brother don’t be shy with them,  they are the best creatures in the world. Arabic male level 2 writing class. A search in iWeb for: _JJT _NN in _N 1 BEST THINGS IN LIFE 1698 2 BEST …

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ADJECTIVES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, superlative, unique / anyone, become, court, discovered, emerged, encountered, experienced, fears, happened, highest, ideas, JJT, largest, lasted, latest, lowest, nightmare, performances, practices, research, results, revealed, ruled, strongest, successes, tasted, tested, tried, upheld, VH, VVN, worst

B1 Point 41 in the category of PAST is defined as: present perfect simple WITH SUPERLATIVE to talk about a unique experience. This point will clash with superlatives followed by clauses at B2. And it overlaps Point 33 B1 clauses with a present perfect or past perfect as a superlative noun phrase complement, to talk …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, GSE, NOUNS, phrases, plural, PREPOSITIONS, superlative / amazing, among, areas, coaches, companies, coolest, differences, earliest, finest, forms, gifts, highest, IO, is, JJT, largest, levels, MC1, mistakes, models, moments, most, NN2, of, one, pieces, points, popular, reasons, rgt, riches, richest, simplest, sites, some, songs, stars, surprises, teams, the, types, useful, views, ways, worst, _AT

Here are two expert examples of complex noun phrases as subject complements: Ocean worlds are some of the most fascinating places. Listen to this sentence   This is one of the most important things that any man can do. Listen *Note, ‘is one of the most‘ is the second most frequent 5-word Ngram. iWeb 262,288 In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 41 in ADJECTIVES is defined as:  ‘ONE OF …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, modify, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range / accident, around, available, blood, call, corner, dead, download, fact, fit, free, front, full, further, heavy, high, idea, II, JJ, largest, low, luck, market, middle, N, open, pleased, public, rich, sale, size, strong, the, TLC, to, too, true, variety, way, web, yourself

There is overlap between these two A2 English Grammar Profile points: Point 6 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined: ‘too’ + adjective + prepositional phrase Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples for range are: …

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ADJECTIVES, article, B2, modify, superlative / best, by, common, easiest, effective, far, impressive, JJT, largest, majority, most, popular, significant, the, widely

Point 62 in the category of adjectives in the English Grammar Profile.

A2, ADJECTIVES, article, B2, ellipsis, NOUNS, range, superlative / best, brightest, busiest, common, coolest, deepest, disadvantages, driest, earliest, eldest, farthest, fittest, furthest, healthiest, heaviest, highest, JJT, largest, loudest, lowest, most, of, one, prettiest, quietest, rarest, richest, scariest, sharpest, simplest, smartest, smoothest, softest, strangest, strongest, tastiest, the, thinnest, TLC, weakest, widest

Which superlative adjective should we learn at higher levels?