once – English Grammar Profiler

A2, alternative, QUESTIONS / advice, alcohol, alive, blog, cigarettes, colleague, college, comments, concerns, dead, directly, drugs, fact, failure, fake, false, female, fiction, goods, high, ideas, improvements, indirectly, internally, large, literally, low, male, negative, negatively, office, once, or, password, personally, positive, positively, pounds, product, products, quickly, real, service, services, slowly, success, suggestions, tablet, thoughts, tips, tricks, truck, true, twice, unsafe, weed, worse

A2 Point 14 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions with two words from the same class combined with ‘or’. *note that there is a b1 point for two clauses joined with ‘or’ in a question. A few searches on iWeb for: _NN or NN ? 1 PRODUCT OR SERVICE? 1217 2 …

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ADVERBS, B1, DETERMINERS, quantity / all, almost, any, approximately, area, AT1, basically, case, company, corner, DB, every, full, half, hardly, least, level, nearly, NN, once, online, piece, probably, roughly, RR, so, TLC, turn, twice, type, virtually, VV, way, worse, yet, _AT

Here are a few examples of determiners premodified by intensifiers. There are hardly any phone booths left in this city.   TLC male India B1 We have nearly all the big automobile companies. TLC male India, B1   It took me virtually no time at all. Listen to this expert example B1 point 48 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: modify determiners with adverbs. There is clashing information in the English Grammar Profile.  The example …

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ADVERBS, B1, CLAUSES, QUESTIONS / actually, agree, already, anyone, care, cares, else, even, ever, everyone, explain, happen, just, matter, mean, most, once, own, possibly, received, RR, someone, still, tried, were

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 51 in CLAUSES is defined as: INTERROGATIVE + ADVERB in mid-position, between the subject and the main verb. For example: And if he still understood it, why does it even matter? A search in iWeb for _P _RR _V ? 1 IT REALLY MATTER ? 1368 2 IT REALLY WORK ? 747 3 YOU REALLY NEED ? 657 4 …

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B2, CONJUNCTIONS, PAST, polite, simple / as, BE, before, CS, good, great, if, JJ, once, since, so, soon, subscribed, talked, until, VVD, when, while, would

In the English Grammar Profile, there are two points that overlap.  B2 point 55 is defined as: PAST simple after ‘if’ as a politeness structure, especially in letters and emails. B2 point 72 is defined as: the past simple with a range of subordinating conjunctions, including ‘as soon as’, ‘before’, ‘if’, ‘once’, ‘since’, ‘so’, ‘until’, …

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ADVERBS, DETERMINERS / DAR, more, once, RGR, RR22, RRR

1 ‘more’ is a comparative after-determiner (DAR), when it is followed by a noun phrase. For example: For more information, contact me. One or more of the people have come. 2 ‘more’ is a comparative adverb of degree (RGR), when it modifies an adjective or adverb. You are more likely to win, and more importantly, …

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ADVERBS, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / all, anything, best, first, II, large, last, length, long, most, once, present, random, RR21, RR31, RR32, thought, _AT

‘AT‘ is by far the most common as a simple preposition. (II) 2 AT is also used in two-part adverbial phrases. (RR21) 1 AT ALL 1232801 Maybe they weren’t thinking about anything at all. listen 2 AT FIRST 403759 At first, I thought they worked for the government. listen 3 AT ONCE 222526 4 AT BEST 111972 5 AT PRESENT 83432 6 AT LAST 77484 7 AT MOST …

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ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS, DETERMINERS / CS, once, RR, RR21, RR22, RR33, RR41

Words like ‘once’ and ‘twice’ can be predeterminers as multipliers.  For example: “Once every two weeks”  “Twice a day” However, ‘once’ is very often a subordinating conjunction or general adverb. 1 ONCE (CS@_RR) 2000496 2 ONCE (RR) 1897790 3 ONCE (RR_CS@) 994010 4 ONCE (RR21) 550086 5 ONCE (RR22) 257464 6 ONCE (RR33) 55643 7 …

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phrases, PREPOSITIONS / all, being, but, CS, example, fear, for, getting, if, II22, in, instance, most, of, on, once, part, return, REX21, RR21, RR41, sure, the, time

In this post, we investigate 11 ways ‘for’ is tagged by the claws 7 tag set.   1 FOR (IF) 140146366 preposition 1 . FOR MORE INFORMATION 77314 2 . FOR THOSE WHO 22531 3 THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL 19815 4 THE REASON FOR THIS IS 19424 5 . FOR ME , 18503 6 …

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ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS, phrases / again, all, and, behold, by, CC, for, fro, large, lo, low, on, once, RL32, RR31, RR32, RR42, RR43, so, time, to, UH32

The second most common word in English is ‘AND’  which is usually a conjunction.  It’s also used in complex adverbial phrases: and so on (A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile) I need you to help me with my bags and so on. listen TIME AND AGAIN (unlisted in the EVP) I‘ve told you fellas time and again, this haka won’t work until you get the first action right! listen BY AND LARGE (C1) The men who work for PointCorp, the men you dishonour by calling them mercenaries are,  by and large, retired American military personnel. listen BY …

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B1, B2, CLAUSES, conditional, CONJUNCTIONS, finite / CS, except, once, provided, that, unless, whereas

Subordinating conjunctions for upper-intermediate students.