perfect – English Grammar Profiler

A2, article, B1, CLAUSES, DETERMINERS, exclamations, indefinite, NOUNS, phrases / a, brilliant, difference, fantastic, gift, guy, idea, JJ, mistake, NN, off, pain, PELIC, perfect, piece, pity, pleasant, shame, story, surprise, way, what, wonderful

Exclamative ‘what’ can precede the indefinite article and is, therefore, a predeterminer.  Here’s an example: What a surprise! Listen In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 38 in the category of CLAUSES/exclamations: ‘What a’ + noun phrase and ‘What a’ + noun phrase + clause However, in the English Vocabulary Profile, ‘what’ is listed at B1 …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, exclamations, phrases / amazing, awesome, brilliant, clear, cool, crazy, fantastic, horrible, how, JJ, lovely, lucky, perfect, pretty, simple, SPECIAL, strange, terrible, true, useful, wonderful

Point 62 in the category of CLAUSES/phrases/exclamations is defined as: ‘How’ + adjective. A search in iWeb for: How _JJ ! 1 HOW EXCITING ! 1276 2 HOW FUN ! 799 3 HOW COOL ! 563 4 HOW CUTE ! 498 5 HOW WONDERFUL ! 427 6 HOW BEAUTIFUL ! 291 7 HOW SWEET ! …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, range / afraid, amazing, available, careful, clear, complete, correct, free, full, interested, JJ, PELIC, perfect, simple, sure, surprised, true, useful, VB

Point 16 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: increasing range of adjectives predicatively, after ‘be’. A search on iWeb for _VB _JJ 1 BE SURE 833740 2 IS AVAILABLE 810530 3 ARE AVAILABLE 797442 4 IS IMPORTANT 780459 5 IS ONLY 690395 6 IS GOOD 427370 7 BE AVAILABLE 424771 8 IS GREAT 412719 9 IS …

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