major – English Grammar Profiler

B2, NOUNS, phrases / considerable, extent, extreme, major, massive, meaningful, measure, minor, modest, rate, remarkable, ridiculous, significant, slight, substantial, sufficient, timing, unreasonable, varying

In the English Vocabulary Profile, the B2 noun ‘extent’ is listed in phrases with ‘to’. NOUN: the size or importance of something mainly in some ways A search in NOW corpus for: to_II * * extent 1 TO A LARGE EXTENT 15605 After all, life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. listen 2 TO A CERTAIN EXTENT 14788 3 TO A …

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academic / BE, brief, can, clearly, compare, compares, illustrate, illustrates, in, it, major, NN, overall, present, presents, show, shows, specific, summarise, summary, to, VVN

I’m often asked by my students just before they take an IELTS test for some quick tips on what to study before a particular task.  Therefore, in this post, I will summarise the salient grammar and vocabulary features I found in very good introductions and overviews in the Academic IELTS  Task 1 tests using our …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, DETERMINERS, modify, PRONOUNS, substitution / a, common, correct, current, D, earlier, existing, few, JJ, larger, lucky, main, major, obvious, ones, original, particular, PELIC, previous, real, several, whose

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 40 in the category of PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as: determiners + premodifers + ‘ones’ EXPERT EXAMPLE: These are the more common ones around today. TED PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: (referring to outdoor activities) I think Bodrum has the best ones. Turkish, Male, Level 3, Writing Class. A search in iWeb for: _A _J ones 1 THE ONLY ONES 45418 2 YOUR …

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C1, DETERMINERS, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS, quantity / boys, categories, circumstances, conditions, DD, DD2, either, events, issues, items, locations, major, men, methods, neither, NN2, of, options, products, situations, these, things, those

‘Either’ can mean “the one or the other.” ‘Neither’ can mean “not the one and not the other” or “not either.” C1 English Grammar Profile point 63 in DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘either’ and ‘neither’ + ‘of’ with plural noun phrases or pronouns. For example: Neither of these men is Chaney. (note the subject-verb agreement!) listen I don’t think …

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academic, ADJECTIVES, attributive, C2, degree, intensity, NOUNS, position, range / beginning, cities, end, JJ, major, NN, problem, TLC, very

For this C2 grammar, ‘major’ is an adjective meaning: important, serious, or significant. ‘Very’ is an adjective meaning: actual or precise, with emphasis on the exact quality of the following noun or an extreme point in time/space. Point 73 under the category of adjectives in C2 on the English Grammar Profile these two vocabulary items …

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