the ones – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 59 in the category of PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as:

POSTMODIFYING, SPECIFYING: ‘the ones’ with a complement, to refer to something specific.

the_AT ones _P

1 THE ONES WHO 62764

We are the ones who will inherit this earth.

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2 THE ONES I 34421 3 THE ONES YOU 33077 4 THE ONES WE 15126 5 THE ONES THEY 6636 6 THE ONES HE 3382 7 THE ONES SHE 1422 8 THE ONES IT 773

9 THE ONES WHOM 297

10 THE ONES EVERYONE 164

11 THE ONES NO 54 12 THE ONES NOBODY 40 13 THE ONES EVERYBODY 33 14 THE ONES ONE 25 15 THE ONES SOMEONE 20 16 THE ONES HE/SHE 13

17 THE ONES ANYONE 9

the_AT ones _I

1 THE ONES IN 17322

I‘ll take the ones in the red box.

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2 THE ONES WITH 14915 3 THE ONES ON 8812 4 THE ONES FROM 5473 5 THE ONES AT 3242 6 THE ONES FOR 2752 7 THE ONES OF 1921 8 THE ONES WITHOUT 817 9 THE ONES TO 715 10 THE ONES ABOUT 595 11 THE ONES AROUND 460 12 THE ONES BEHIND 453 13 THE ONES BY 410 14 THE ONES LIKE 372 15 THE ONES NEAR 326 16 THE ONES UNDER 320 17 THE ONES ABOVE 245 18 THE ONES WORTH 241 19 THE ONES BEFORE 237

20 THE ONES AFTER 189

the_AT ones _N

1 THE ONES PEOPLE 418

Because your dreams are like the ones people get from putting opium in brownies.

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5 THE ONES GOD 82

8 THE ONES COMPLEMENT 55 9 THE ONES OTHERS 48 10 THE ONES JESUS 34 11 THE ONES PLACE 32 12 THE ONES APPLE 28

13 THE ONES PLAYERS 22

15 THE ONES HUMANS 21 16 THE ONES KIDS 20

17 THE ONES STUDENTS 20

19 THE ONES WORTHY 20
20 THE ONES DAVID 18

A2:
anyone, around, by, everybody, everyone, god, nobody, someone, without

B1:
humans, kids, worth

PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE:

I think the best friendships are the ones in which the friends have a different personality

but are interested in the same things.

Spanish, Female, Level 4, Grammar Class.

*Our grammar is hidden behind more complex grammar.  The use in the example might even be considered C1 since ‘the ones’ followed by a clause.