somewhere – English Grammar Profiler

B1, informal, QUESTIONS, tags / amazing, awesome, by, cool, crazy, dream, enough, far, mean, means, news, out, point, pretty, reason, right, simple, so, somewhere, sounds, true, while

Point 16 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: ‘RIGHT’ AS AN INFORMAL TAG in informal contexts. A search in iWeb for: * * , right ? 1 I KNOW , RIGHT ? 1260 2 MAKES SENSE , RIGHT ? 866 3 PRETTY COOL , RIGHT ? 735   National Law Review New Jersey …

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A2 point 34 in the category of PRONOUNS: ‘something’ in vague expressions, to refer to things in a non-specific way. B2 point 69 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: indefinite pronouns in vague expressions to refer to things in a non-specific way. *The B2 examples given in the EGP are: or_CC anything_PN1 or_CC …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, indefinite, phrases, PRONOUNS / JJ, nothing, nowhere, PELIC, PN1, RL, somewhere, VVI

Let’s look at what intermediate students can do with indefinite pronouns and adjectives. Point 44 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: adjective or adjective phrase after pronouns like ‘something’, ‘nothing’, ‘somewhere’, ‘nowhere’ Point 29 in NOUNs is defined as: phrases with an indefinite pronoun + adjective or clause. We have crossed out ‘something’ because it has …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, B1, indefinite, PRONOUNS, specify / amazing, anything, awesome, cool, crazy, dangerous, extra, fresh, healthy, heavy, higher, horrible, JJ, larger, negative, nothing, nowhere, PN1, real, simple, simpler, soft, something, somewhere, SPECIAL, strange, stronger, terrible, unusual, useful, wonderful, worse

Let’s look at some examples of the indefinite pronoun ‘something’ + adjective phrase.  This relates to “post positioned adjectives” ‘something’ is an indefinite pronoun.  ‘special’ is an adjective. The adjective post-modifies the pronoun.  The adjective makes the pronoun more specific. Well,  how about something special for lunch tomorrow to cheer you up? I‘ll make something special for you. (Watch example sentences) The meaning of ‘something adjective‘ …

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