services – English Grammar Profiler

B1, DETERMINERS, irregular, NOUNS, plural, possessive / championship, charity, development, education, GE, issues, literature, NN2, services, singles, track, women

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 44 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: ‘S after irregular plural nouns to indicate possession. Here’s an expert example: Women‘s organizations were active participants from the beginning. (Listen to this sentence) A search in iWeb for: _NN2 _GE _NN We removed those that are not irregular. 1 CHILDREN ‘S HOSPITAL 34865 2 MEN ‘S …

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A2, 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. You must do the homework each day without delay. Arabic, female, level 4 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 …

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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 2 …

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B1, complex, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive / actor, advocate, affairs, agents, agriculture, appeal, appeals, appearance, art, aspects, association, attention, author, award, awareness, bench, billions, block, campaign, cards, case, celebration, champion, choir, clubs, collection, college, commerce, costume, council, couple, court, department, diploma, director, directors, division, earth, education, election, employment, energy, episode, experience, fame, fees, GE, graduate, hall, health, history, institute, journal, judgment, justice, king, landing, literature, medicine, member, members, million, minds, NN, oak, of, office, PELIC, percent, pounds, proposal, quality, queen, rights, sciences, season, secretary, series, services, society, state, surface, survey, taxpayers, team, thrones, transition, veteran, veterans, wage, waste, workers, worth, WRITER

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 42 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: complex noun phrases with noun phrase + ‘of’ + noun phrase + possessive determiner ‘s + noun phrase.   PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Our chairs are on the opposite side of the doctor’s chair,  in front of the desk. Chinese female, Level 3 Writing Class. An iWeb search for: _NN of _NN _GE _NN …

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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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