product – English Grammar Profiler

B1, MODALITY, necessity, NOUNS, obligation, PRONOUNS, range / account, application, applications, candidate, candidates, care, companies, company, court, customer, customers, documents, employee, employees, employer, employers, entries, file, form, forms, guests, I, individual, information, items, leaders, manager, managers, materials, member, members, must, NN, notice, order, orders, organization, organizations, owner, owners, patient, patients, PELIC, plan, product, products, program, programs, property, request, requests, service, services, staff, study, system, systems, team, teams, user, users, value, vehicle, VM, you, _P

Student examples: So I must study English very hard. PELIC Korean male level 2 writing class.   I think that teenagers must study. TLC speaking test, female Spain B1 B1 point 88 in the category of MODALITY: ‘must’ (with a wide range of pronouns and nouns) to talk about obligation and necessity A2 point 49: ‘must’ with a limited range of pronouns (‘I’ and …

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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 …

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B1, PRESENT, range, simple, speech act, VERBS / advance, anyone, confusion, delay, everyone, highly, if, inconvenience, lack, length, PELIC, product, recommend, so, suggest, try, VV0

Point 21 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: a limited range of speech act verbs, including ‘suggest’, ‘apologise’, ‘recommend’. *Some of these will clash with C1:  suggest-recommend-insist + present-simple   PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: In conclusion, I suggest that international students whose English abilities are not strong enough should study in the ELI for at least one term before attending colleges or universities. Chinese male – level 5 writing class. A search for: I suggest|recommend|apologize * …

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B1, emphasis, NOUNS, phrases / a, additional, amount, amounts, care, condition, confidential, data, deal, demand, difference, duties, expectations, experience, fan, fond, forward, high, hopes, huge, idea, ideas, information, JJ, large, lengths, level, levels, low, matters, memories, news, NN, notice, period, personal, post, price, prices, product, property, proximity, quality, range, real, regard, results, scale, service, shape, simple, space, SPECIAL, standards, statements, such, tough, value, variety, way, wide, wonderful

Point 41 in the category of  NOUNS is defined as: noun phrases with ‘such a’ + adjective + singular noun and ‘such’ + adjective + plural noun, to give emphasis.   An iWeb search for: such a _JJ _NN 1 SUCH A LONG TIME 7187 2 SUCH A BIG DEAL 6247 3 SUCH A SHORT …

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B1, B2, CONJUNCTIONS, continuous, FOCUS, PAST, perfect, PRESENT / around, been, bothering, care, closely, figure, for, forward, growing, happening, has, have, JJ, leading, operating, over, popularity, product, providing, residents, rounds, searching, serving, since, strong, through, try, trying, VHZ, VVG, way, when

The landscape can get muddy when it has been raining.

B1, B2, object, PASSIVES, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range, subject, VERBS / application, applied, article, attracted, content, entries, episode, event, force, given, goods, item, items, limited, links, offered, package, peace, pressure, product, provided, recipe, recommended, returned, series, service, services, sold

“This post is brought to you by English Grammar Pro. ”  The previous sentence is an example of B2 level grammar.  If that interests you, then read on. There are a few points in the category of PASSIVES and verbs taking two objects that overlap and clash for which CEFR level they indicate.  Before trying …

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