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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, complex, NOUNS, phrases / accepted, almost, amount, amounts, approach, available, basis, beneficial, binding, boiled, cash, chance, check, choice, closely, colleges, competitive, completely, continuously, contract, cost, daily, deal, difference, differences, disease, diseases, domain, double, drained, efforts, entirely, even, extra, extremely, field, fully, generally, ground, guy, high, higher, highly, historically, idea, increasingly, infection, infections, information, institution, JJ, just, larger, legally, level, lightly, low, lower, market, NN, option, pepper, period, personally, plain, position, price, publicly, qualified, quality, range, rapidly, rate, reasonable, related, relationship, relatively, results, risk, role, RR, scale, significant, size, slightly, soil, spaces, still, story, stuff, surface, surgery, team, transmission, transmitted, variable, way, wide, wider

Point 32 in the category of NOUNs is defined as: complex noun phrases with adverb + adjective + noun EXPERT EXAMPLE: And, you know, this is a fairly transparent example. wnpr.org *This overlaps B1 noun phrases in the category of ADJECTIVES and clashes with C1 in the category of modality (emphasis). A search in iWeb for: _RR _JJ _NN 1 PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, general, modify, PRONOUNS, substitution / basic, certain, common, correct, dead, earlier, existing, free, fresh, future, healthy, JJ, large, larger, local, lower, lucky, main, modern, natural, negative, NN2, normal, obvious, ones, original, PELIC, popular, positive, previous, real, recent, regular, remaining, similar, simple, smart, SPECIAL, successful, tiny, top, traditional, wild

Point 50 in the category of PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as: premodifiers with ‘ones’, to refer to something in general. An iWeb search for: _JJ ones 1 LOVED ONES 102997 2 NEW ONES 78751 3 LITTLE ONES 58655 4 ONLY ONES 46742 5 GOOD ONES 26844 6 OLD ONES 24098 7 OTHER ONES 16209 8 SMALLER …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, finite / believe, care, heavier, higher, JJR, larger, lower, simpler, sounds, stronger, than, thinner, worse

Point 56 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: ‘than’ + a finite clause forming the second part of a comparison after a comparative adjective _JJR than _P _VV 1 EASIER THAN YOU THINK 3935 2 CLOSER THAN YOU THINK 927 3 HARDER THAN IT LOOKS 740 4 SMALLER THAN I EXPECTED 688 5 …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, B2, C1, comparatives, modify, predicate / a, bit, brighter, clearer, heavier, higher, JJR, just, larger, little, lower, might, quite, stronger, wider

point 50 at B1 in the EGP in ADJECTIVES is defined as: ‘A (LITTLE) BIT’ to modify comparative adjectives used predicatively after a verb, usually ‘be’ However, ‘a little bit’ is considered as B2 in the EVP. And this B1 point also clashes completely with the C1 grammar point explained here: A search in iWeb …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, comparatives / and, became, become, becomes, becoming, busier, clearer, climbing, get, grew, grow, growing, grows, healthier, heavier, higher, JJR, larger, louder, lower, sicker, stronger, thinner, wider, worse

Point 47 in Adjectives is defined as: ‘and’ to repeat a comparative adjective to indicate change over time, usually after ‘become’ or ‘get’ _V _JJR and _JJR 1 GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER 1563 2 GETTING WORSE AND WORSE 1555 3 GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER 897 4 GET BIGGER AND BIGGER 867 5 GOT WORSE AND …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, comparatives, intensity, modify, predicate / deeper, even, further, get, higher, JJR, larger, lower, simpler, stronger, VB, wider, worse

Point 40 in ADJECTIVES is defined as: “even’ to modify and intensify comparative adjectives used predicatively after a verb, usually ‘be’ and ‘get’. An iWeb search for: even _JJ 1 EVEN WORSE 76953 PELIC STUDENT: Arabic,Male,5,w TOPIC: “Discrimination” It might be even worse and lead to a big conflict. 2 EVEN BETTER 74467 3 EVEN GREATER 49469 4 EVEN BIGGER 34874 5 EVEN HIGHER …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, attributive, B2, comparatives, intensity, modify, NOUNS / better, cost, higher, JJR, job, level, lower, much, NN, RR

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