research – English Grammar Profiler

ACL / academic, achievement, career, community, debate, discipline, discourse, institution, journal, life, performance, research, skill, study, success, work, world, writing, year

STUDENT EXAMPLE: During my first and second academic years, I never went to the library. Chinese female level 5 writing class. iWeb ranking: 1 ACADEMIC YEAR 68730 2 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT 21832 3 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE 16841 4 ACADEMIC SUCCESS 16798 5 ACADEMIC RESEARCH 11633 6 ACADEMIC WORK 7408 7 ACADEMIC CAREER 7300 8 ACADEMIC COMMUNITY 6014 9 ACADEMIC STUDY 5326 10 ACADEMIC WRITING 5230 11 ACADEMIC INSTITUTION …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, quantity, range, uncountable / a, action, advice, air, analysis, assistance, attention, background, bit, cash, damage, data, detail, development, difference, discussion, education, effort, energy, enough, evidence, experience, far, further, history, information, knowledge, laundry, little, loads, luck, much, notice, of, oil, opportunity, patience, PELIC, planning, plenty, power, practice, pressure, protein, research, sense, space, storage, stuff, testing, too, trouble, weight

The English Grammar Profile claims that there are over 1000 grammar points in its inventory.  However, there are numerous points that are overlapping.  This post shows 3 posts that overlap. B1 Point 34 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: uncountable nouns with an increasing range of determiners/quantity words and phrases including ‘much’, ‘a …

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ADJECTIVES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, superlative, unique / anyone, become, court, discovered, emerged, encountered, experienced, fears, happened, highest, ideas, JJT, largest, lasted, latest, lowest, nightmare, performances, practices, research, results, revealed, ruled, strongest, successes, tasted, tested, tried, upheld, VH, VVN, worst

B1 Point 41 in the category of PAST is defined as: present perfect simple WITH SUPERLATIVE to talk about a unique experience. This point will clash with superlatives followed by clauses at B2. And it overlaps Point 33 B1 clauses with a present perfect or past perfect as a superlative noun phrase complement, to talk …

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B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, signs, size, sleeve, stock, such, tin, topic, trade, trend, value, video, VV0, VVZ, wage, web, weekly

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 26 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: a limited range of reporting verbs, including ‘say’, ‘show’ EXPERT EXAMPLE: This map shows the presence of agriculture on planet Earth.   PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Some people say that money is the root of all evil, but I disagree with it. Korean male, writing class. _P show|shows|say|says * * * We have removed lines that are not …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, range / action, activities, applications, areas, attention, cases, chances, choice, choices, companies, customers, energy, enough, exercise, experience, guys, ideas, information, instances, kids, loads, most, NN, of, opportunities, opportunity, options, organizations, parking, patients, PELIC, plenty, points, power, reasons, research, rest, sense, situations, space, sunshine, support, TLC, types, users, value, ways

B1 Point 43 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with both plural nouns and uncountable nouns (‘most’, ‘enough’, ‘plenty of’, ‘loads of’). *This overlaps another B1 point. PELIC WRITING CLASS EXAMPLES: Most students eat lunch and dinner in a cafeteria. Korean, Female, Level 3   In addition, the people who lived in Korea 100 years ago didn’t have enough transportation. Korean, Male, Level 3   *Note that …

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