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A2, complements, object, position, possessive, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reference, singular / care, choice, could, fan, heart, just, line, luck, PELIC, post, PPGE, pretty, size, take, yours

Here’s an example of the possessive pronoun ‘yours’ in object position. It’s just like yours. Listen to the pronunciation. A2 point 21 in the category of PRONOUNS: the possessive pronoun ‘yours’, with singular reference, in object positions, and complement positions after ‘be’ and after prepositions A search in iWeb corpus for: * * * yours .   …

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DETERMINERS / about, MF, N, one-third, size, the, _A

Male raptors are about one-third the size of females. CSMonitor   A search in iWeb for _MF _A _N 1 1/2 A CUP 770 2 1/2 THE PRICE 663 3 1/2 AN HOUR 655 4 1/2 AN INCH 593 5 1/3 THE PRICE 543 6 1/2 THE TIME 386 7 ONE-THIRD THE SIZE 377 8 1/3 THE SIZE 370 9 …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, complex, NOUNS, phrases / accepted, almost, amount, amounts, approach, available, basis, beneficial, boiled, cash, chance, check, choice, closely, colleges, competitive, completely, continuously, contract, cost, daily, deal, difference, differences, disease, diseases, domain, double, efforts, entirely, even, extra, extremely, field, fully, generally, ground, guy, high, higher, highly, historically, idea, increasingly, infection, infections, information, institution, JJ, just, larger, legally, level, lightly, low, lower, market, NN, option, pepper, period, personally, plain, position, price, publicly, qualified, quality, range, rapidly, rate, reasonable, related, relationship, relatively, results, risk, role, RR, scale, significant, size, slightly, soil, spaces, still, story, stuff, surface, surgery, team, transmitted, variable, way, wide, wider

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 32 in the category of NOUNs is defined as: complex noun phrases with adverb + adjective + noun EXPERT EXAMPLE: And, you know, this is a fairly transparent example. wnpr.org *This overlaps B1 noun phrases in the category of ADJECTIVES and clashes with C1 in the category of modality (emphasis). A search in iWeb for: …

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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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A2, B1, FOCUS, PASSIVES / accessed, accompanied, adding, amazed, ambulance, amended, amount, appointed, approved, attended, based, bias, bound, by, calculated, calling, caused, clicking, compensated, completed, complicated, considered, contacting, council, created, destroyed, determined, disabled, dividing, enabled, explained, fact, fire, followed, funded, governed, higher, hit, inserting, it, joined, killed, law, laws, meant, national, news, notified, obtained, out, owned, PELIC, pitch, president, protected, punished, ranked, reached, reduced, regarded, replaced, required, results, selected, size, southern, striking, struck, succeeded, supported, surprised, survived, term, terms, variety, VB, vehicle, virus, VVN, widow

In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 2 in the category of PASSIVES : ‘BY’ to add information about something already known. B1 point 12 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: passive with ‘by’ to give focus. All the A2 examples use the pronoun IT  + is|was + past participle  + by The one …

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B1, CLAUSES, comparatives / alcohol, as, dinosaurs, god, gold, information, level, N, nature, notice, oil, plastic, price, same, size, terms, the, traffic, way

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 52 in the category of CLAUSES/comparatives is defined as: THE SAME’ (+ NOUN) + ‘AS’ + PRONOUN OR NOUN Here is an example without a noun after ‘the same’: The Mary Lou is actually the same as the Mary Jane. listen A search in iWeb for: the same _N as _N *Note that if there is …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, modify, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range / accident, around, available, blood, call, corner, dead, download, fact, fit, free, front, full, further, heavy, high, idea, II, JJ, largest, low, luck, market, middle, N, open, pleased, public, rich, sale, size, strong, the, TLC, to, too, true, variety, way, web, yourself

There is overlap between these two A2 English Grammar Profile points: Point 6 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined: ‘too’ + adjective + prepositional phrase Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples for range are: …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B2, comparatives, degree, modify / higher, JJR, larger, price, rate, size, slightly, smaller, than, version

Which adverb can I teach with comparative adjectives to B2 students?