side – English Grammar Profiler
B1, DETERMINERS, informal, NOUNS, quantity, spoken, uncountable / a, advice, air, bit, blood, break, care, cash, cooler, DA1, detail, difference, exercise, gift, guy, history, honey, hope, information, JJ, lemon, little, luck, magic, NN, of, oil, pain, PELIC, piece, plastic, practice, push, rest, side, slice, space, story, variety, video, way
B1 English Grammar Profile point 49 in DETERMINERS is defined as: quantifying determiners with uncountable nouns, often in informal and/or spoken contexts (‘a little’, ‘a bit of’ and ‘a little bit of’) *note, ‘little’ is hard to tag as a determiner and not an adjective. Also, we believe that pronouns and other determiners should be …
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article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / advantage, approach, area, areas, benefit, case, challenge, characters, choice, companies, company, difference, form, guests, guy, guys, idea, ingredients, issue, item, items, kids, line, members, method, NN, of, option, options, other, PELIC, piece, point, possibility, products, reason, sections, set, side, solution, stuff, team, teams, the, type, types, way
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 47 in the category of DETERMINERS/articles is defined as: ‘THE OTHER’ with a singular noun to refer to the second or the opposite of two things, and with a plural noun to refer to one of a set of things. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: After a while, I thought that it was better to move to the other house. Korean, Female, Level …
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A2, ADJECTIVES, NOUNS, phrases, superlative / advanced, amazing, form, forms, information, JJ, level, means, mistake, mistakes, most, NN, PELIC, piece, pieces, point, popular, reason, reasons, side, the, tourist, type, types, way, ways, wonderful
Point 15 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: superlative adjective phrases using ‘the most’, with longer adjectives of two or more syllables. An iWeb search for: the most _JJ _NN 1 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 69789 2 THE MOST IMPORTANT PART 22968 3 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS 20263 After that, the most important things are healthy foods. PELIC STUDENT: …
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alternative, B1, phrases, QUESTIONS / a, across, around, bug, by, cloud, company, during, environment, female, field, flu, fridge, future, gift, ground, hobby, I, kids, middle, mix, mountains, NN, office, or, over, scenes, service, side, store, studio, team, top, workout
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 22 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions with two phrases combined with ‘or’. If we follow the patterns in the EGP examples and search in iWeb with them: or _I _A _NN ? 1 OR IN THE FUTURE? 152 EXAMPLE: Where can we see you perform next or in the future? missguided.co.uk …
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A2, ADJECTIVES, article, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, specify / following, future, highest, JJ, latest, line, news, NN, only, PELIC, real, reason, side, term, the, thing, war, way, whole
In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 36 in DETERMINERs/articles is defined as: ‘the’ + adjectives in a noun phrase, to specify For example: How much was the cost of living in the big city? An iWeb search for: the _JJ _NN 1 THE OTHER HAND 459204 2 THE BEST WAY 361919 3 THE ONLY WAY 263862 That is the only way to avoid the noise disturbing me. PELIC STUDENT: Chinese Female level …
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A2, article, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, range, singular / accident, air, an, apartment, appointment, area, art, artist, each, idea, mail, MC, NN1, offer, office, one, order, PELIC, piece, point, reason, side, way
In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 28 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with singular nouns (‘each’, ‘an’, ‘one’ and numbers) each|an|one _NN1 1 ONE THING 587964 2 AN EXAMPLE 440517 3 AN OPPORTUNITY 390589 4 AN EMAIL 364587 5 AN ISSUE 358269 6 AN AREA 254162 …
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B1, B2, C1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, singular / category, device, drug, either, end, format, mode, neither, party, side, state, treatment, version, way
At B1 in the English Vocabulary Profile, ‘either’ is listed as: PRONOUN; DETERMINER: One of two people or things when it is not important which At B2 ‘neither’ is listed as: PRONOUN; DETERMINER not either of two people or things C1 English Grammar Profile point 60 in the category of DETERMINERS & quantity is defined …
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B1, CLAUSES, interrogatives, QUESTIONS / anyway, fault, idea, NN, responsibility, side, VV, which, whose
There is no evidence of when students can use “which” or “whose”.