position – English Grammar Profiler

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, complex, NOUNS, phrases / accepted, almost, amount, amounts, approach, available, basis, beneficial, boiled, cash, chance, check, choice, closely, colleges, competitive, completely, continuously, contract, cost, daily, deal, difference, differences, disease, diseases, domain, double, efforts, entirely, even, extra, extremely, field, fully, generally, ground, guy, high, higher, highly, historically, idea, increasingly, infection, infections, information, institution, JJ, just, larger, legally, level, lightly, low, lower, market, NN, option, pepper, period, personally, plain, position, price, publicly, qualified, quality, range, rapidly, rate, reasonable, related, relationship, relatively, results, risk, role, RR, scale, significant, size, slightly, soil, spaces, still, story, stuff, surface, surgery, team, transmitted, variable, way, wide, wider

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 32 in the category of NOUNs is defined as: complex noun phrases with adverb + adjective + noun EXPERT EXAMPLE: And, you know, this is a fairly transparent example. wnpr.org *This overlaps B1 noun phrases in the category of ADJECTIVES and clashes with C1 in the category of modality (emphasis). A search in iWeb for: …

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A2, B1, PRONOUNS, range, reflexive, singular, VERBS / allow, bring, buy, call, calls, challenge, consider, defend, enjoy, herself, himself, imagine, introduce, itself, keep, kill, killed, lend, lends, let, limit, lose, myself, PELIC, position, PPX1, prepare, protect, prove, push, remind, save, set, setting, surround, TLC, V, yourself

B1 Point 55 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: increasing range of singular reflexive pronouns with an increasing range of verbs to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. A2 Point 12: range of singular reflexive pronouns (‘myself’, ‘yourself’) with a limited range of verbs (‘enjoy’, …

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ADJECTIVES, C1, modify, NOUNS, stronger, superlative / best, experience, JJ, JJT, N, outcome, outcomes, position, possible, stable, the, way

C1 point 70 in ADJECTIVES is defined as: a postmodifier to make the superlative stronger in the structure superlative + postmodifier + noun All 3 examples in the EGP have ‘possible’ after a superlative.  So here we do an iWeb search for: _JJT _JJ _NN 1 THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY 5783 2 THE BEST POSSIBLE …

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B2, CLAUSES, complements, formal, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, relative, stranding / appear, attention, DDQ, despite, environment, II, in, IO, limit, none, of, operate, operates, PNQO, position, purpose, purposes, sense, society, to, track, what, whatever, wherever, whether, which, whom

Wh-relatives can be preceded by a preposition unlike ‘that’ or ‘zero’ relatives.  For example: This is the thing which I am interested in.  (stranded preposition) This is the thing in which I am interested. (fronted preposition) This is the thing that I am interested in. (stranding) This is the thing I am interested in. (‘zero’ relative pronoun and stranding) In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 12 in the category of PREPOSITIONs is defined as: preposition + relative pronoun as complement, to …

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A1, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / a, amount, approach, chance, completely, direction, disease, fairly, issue, JJ, lightly, NN, period, position, range, really, recent, regular, relationship, role, RR, secret, totally, very

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