mine – English Grammar Profiler

A2, B1, NOUNS, phrases, possessive, PRONOUNS / ambition, article, blog, brain, classmate, colleague, colleagues, cousin, customer, dream, experience, fan, fault, favourites, fear, friend, friends, girlfriend, goal, habit, heart, hero, hobby, idea, interest, land, mate, member, mind, mine, NN, of, partner, patient, pleasure, post, posts, PPGE, professor, project, recipe, relative, song, story, TLC, uncle, war, worker, yours

Here is another example of overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile. B1 Point 37 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN Which overlaps the more specific B1 point 47 in the category of PRONOUNS: possessive pronoun ‘yours’ after noun + ‘of’. It would be very beneficial …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, possessive, PRONOUNS, singular / activity, almost, as, high, JJ, just, large, least, mine, nearly, pretty, probably, quickly, quite, rise, RR, sound, turn out, twice, valid, valuable, XX, yours

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 63 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: possessive pronouns ‘mine’ and ‘yours’, with singular reference, in comparative clauses after ‘(not) as … as’. *The following example does not have a singular reference, and the use of ‘yours’ is A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile. They‘re not as complicated as …

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alternative, B1, CLAUSES, QUESTIONS / alone, already, art, broken, confused, crazy, disagree, dreaming, else, explode, false, guessing, impossible, let, matter, mine, murder, myself, normal, or, out, P, permanent, pushed, real, separate, should, true, try, V, worse, yourself

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 27 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions with two clauses combined with ‘or’. A search in iWeb for or _V _P * ? 1 OR AM I WRONG? 621 2 OR DOES IT MATTER? 287   Villanovan Do you view all these changes in entertainment as good or bad, or does it matter at all? *Note …

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B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, linking, VERBS / could, following, idea, II, like, look, might, mine, mix, PELIC, real, similar, smell, sound, taste, to

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 55 in the category of CLAUSES/comparatives is defined as: linking verbs + ‘like’ or ‘similar to’. EXPERT EXAMPLE: They taste similar to regular bulb onions, but they‘re milder. tastingtable.com PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE He looks like a cute turtle. Korean, Male, Level 2 A search in iWeb for: look* like * * * 1 LOOKS LIKE THIS: 14720 2 LOOK LIKE …

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C2, demonstrative, DETERMINERS, highlight, NOUNS, positive, possessive, PRONOUNS / his, JJ, mine, NN, of, passion, PPGE, theirs, this, war, world

Here are examples of using the determiner ‘this’ + noun + ‘of’ a possessive pronoun to highlight: I’m impressed at how the students have picked up on this war of his. listen   In this world of theirs, nothing is bad or evil. listen C2 point 70 in DETERMINERS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘this’ + noun + ‘of’ + possessive pronoun to highlight something, often in a positive way. An iWeb search for: this _NN of …

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