sort – English Grammar Profiler

A2, DETERMINERS, NEGATIVE, NOUNS, plural, quantity, uncountable / activity, any, companies, competition, DA2, detail, details, difference, guys, information, luck, many, much, NN, NN2, not, PELIC, point, reason, sort, space, teams, tourists, traffic, type, variety, way, XX

When grammar points are from the same CEFR level, and in the same category, we believe it is more useful to have a single post that covers them.  Both these A2 points come from the category of DETERMINERS/quantity. Point 15: ‘many’ with plural nouns in negative contexts. Point 23: ‘much’ with uncountable nouns in negative …

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B1, infinitive, MODALITY / accept, act, adapt, add, adjust, admit, agree, assume, battle, beat, become, bite, break, bring, build, call, cancel, charge, check, compete, compromise, consider, continue, convince, cover, create, cut, deal, decide, defend, deliver, develop, dig, disagree, drop, earn, endure, expect, experiment, explain, fight, figure, fill, fix, focus, follow, force, grow, happen, hate, have, hire, hit, hold, hope, improve, include, increase, invest, jump, keep, kill, let, likely, lose, manage, mess, move, offer, order, overcome, pass, PELIC, perform, pick, plan, prepare, produce, prove, provide, pull, purchase, push, quit, raise, realize, rebuild, remove, replace, return, save, score, search, sell, set, settle, share, shoot, shut, sign, solve, sort, spend, stand, step, stick, suffer, switch, throw, to, trust, try, turn, upgrade, win

Point 117 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘have to’ as an infinitive form *This will overlap sometimes with B2 adjectives followed by an infinitive. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: A child is very expensive, this causes parents to have to work more, which can lead to frustration and anger. Taiwanese female, level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: * _TO have _TO _VVI 1 GOING TO HAVE TO GET 4269 …

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ADVERBS, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / ahead, all, as, because, date, fact, heck, hell, II22, II33, II42, II44, instead, IO, irrespective, JJ32, kind, light, line, lot, matter, of, off, order, out, outside, part, RG22, RG44, RR21, RR22, RR42, RR53, sort, sudden, touch, upwards

The third most frequent word in the English language is used in a lot of different ways. ‘OF‘ is most often in a prepositional phrase, but it is also used in many other types of phrases.  Below we list the ranked frequency found in the iWeb corpus. 1 OF (IO) 328813259 2 OF (II22) 11680309 …

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