situations – English Grammar Profiler

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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C1, DETERMINERS, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS, quantity / categories, circumstances, conditions, DD, DD2, either, events, issues, items, locations, major, methods, neither, NN2, of, options, products, situations, these, those

‘Either’ can mean “the one or the other.” ‘Neither’ can mean “not the one and not the other” or “not either.” C1 English Grammar Profile point 63 in DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘either’ and ‘neither’ + ‘of’ with plural noun phrases or pronouns. For example: Neither of these men is Chaney. (note the subject-verb agreement!) listen But the truth is, it’s not going …

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