other – English Grammar Profiler
B1, complements, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reciprocal, VERBS / ABLE, against, along, attracted, away, common, communicate, compete, competition, connect, connected, contact, distance, each, far, feelings, front, II, independent, look out, mirror, off, other, relation, respect, share, similar, so, TLC, top, touch, VV, war
Point 60 in the category of PRONOUNS/reciprocal is defined as: ‘each other’ as the object of a verb or complement of a preposition to talk about the mutual behaviour of two or more people. An iWeb search for: * * * each other 1 ON TOP OF EACH OTHER 13130 (note that many of these …
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B1, B2, contrast, DISCOURSE MARKERS, introduce, organising, phrases / contrary, hand, on, one, other, PELIC, the
B1 Point 4 in the category of discourse markers is defined: in writing ORGANISING – range of phrases to introduce contrasting statements. The English Grammar Profile uses two examples, both of which clash against the English Vocabulary Profile: *’on the (other|one) hand’. ‘On the contrary’ We have accidentally double posted this topic. The other page …
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article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / advantage, approach, area, areas, benefit, case, challenge, characters, choice, companies, company, difference, form, guests, guy, guys, idea, ingredients, issue, item, items, kids, line, members, method, NN, of, option, options, other, PELIC, piece, point, possibility, products, reason, sections, set, side, solution, stuff, team, teams, the, type, types, way
B1 point 47 in DETERMINERS/articles is defined as: ‘THE OTHER’ with a singular noun to refer to the second or the opposite of two things, and with a plural noun to refer to one of a set of things. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: After a while, I thought that it was better to move to the other house. Korean, Female, Level 5, Writing Class TLC SPEAKING TEST …
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Point 105 in the category of PRONOUNS/reciprocal is defined as: ‘each’ (+ noun or pronoun) as subject followed by ‘the other(s)’ a complement of a preposition, to refer to two related things. (pronouns: quantity) A search in TED corpus for: Each {n} * {in} the [other|others] Each attempt was substantially different from the other. 1 Each side …
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A2, FOCUS, fronting, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / as, by, case, cases, end, fact, first, for, in, information, more, of, on, other, point, reason, that, the, time, to, way, with, _AT, _I
“At the time, I had a girlfriend, so I didn’t talk to her.” This is an example of putting a prepositional phrase at the start of a sentence which is what pre-intermediate students can do.