million – English Grammar Profiler

B1, complex, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive / actor, advocate, affairs, agents, agriculture, appeal, appeals, appearance, art, aspects, association, attention, author, award, awareness, bench, billions, block, campaign, cards, case, celebration, champion, choir, clubs, collection, college, commerce, costume, council, couple, court, department, diploma, director, directors, division, earth, education, election, employment, energy, episode, experience, fame, fees, GE, graduate, hall, health, history, institute, journal, judgment, justice, king, landing, literature, medicine, member, members, million, minds, NN, oak, of, office, PELIC, percent, pounds, proposal, quality, queen, rights, sciences, season, secretary, series, services, society, state, surface, survey, taxpayers, team, thrones, transition, veteran, veterans, wage, waste, workers, worth, WRITER

Point 42 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: complex noun phrases with noun phrase + ‘of’ + noun phrase + possessive determiner ‘s + noun phrase.   PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Our chairs are on the opposite side of the doctor’s chair,  in front of the desk. Chinese female, Level 3 Writing Class. An iWeb search for: _NN of _NN _GE _NN 1 SECRETARY OF STATE …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity / a, activities, advantages, areas, attempts, benefits, cases, comments, companies, details, dozen, favourites, few, generations, guys, hundred, ideas, inches, issues, items, locations, members, methods, miles, million, millions, NN, occasions, of, options, pieces, points, products, projects, reasons, seconds, several, songs, steps, thoughts, thousand, tips, TLC, topics, types, ways

Point 39 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: wide range of quantifying determiners with plural nouns (‘several’, ‘millions of’, ‘a few of’). *Note that if ‘millions of’ is used as hyperbole, then it is a C1 point. TLC, Speaking test examples: There are very few sports cars in Sri Lanka. We don’t really take those out on the roads. …

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