steps – English Grammar Profiler

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity, QUESTIONS / areas, benefits, cases, channels, characters, choices, companies, competitors, copies, customers, deaths, details, employees, fans, files, fingers, forms, generations, guests, ideas, issues, items, kids, levels, locations, many, members, mistakes, NN2, occasions, options, passengers, pieces, points, possibilities, pounds, products, rules, secrets, sets, sites, steps, toys, units, users, ways

Point 45 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘MANY’ WITH PLURAL NOUNS, INTERROGATIVE An iWeb search for: many _NN2 ? 1 MANY OTHERS ? 293 2 MANY POSSIBILITIES ? 181 3 MANY THINGS ? 168 4 MANY QUESTIONS ? 167 5 MANY OPTIONS ? 126 6 MANY CHILDREN ? 122 7 MANY WAYS …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity / a, activities, advantages, areas, attempts, benefits, cases, comments, companies, details, dozen, favourites, few, generations, guys, hundred, ideas, inches, issues, items, locations, members, methods, miles, million, millions, NN, occasions, of, options, pieces, points, products, projects, reasons, seconds, several, songs, steps, thoughts, thousand, tips, TLC, topics, types, ways

Point 39 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: wide range of quantifying determiners with plural nouns (‘several’, ‘millions of’, ‘a few of’). *Note that if ‘millions of’ is used as hyperbole, then it is a C1 point. TLC, Speaking test examples: There are very few sports cars in Sri Lanka. We don’t really take those out on the roads. …

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