those – English Grammar Profiler
B1, demonstrative, mentioned, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS / another, areas, certainly, couple, definitely, either, few, field, improve, interview, just, most, rid, score, sign, those, top, type, types, V
In the English Grammar Profile, there are two almost identical B1 grammar points for ‘those’ in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives Point 46 is defined as: ‘those’ as a pronoun with plural reference. Point 62: ‘those’ as a pronoun to refer to things which have already been mentioned. An iWeb search for: * * * those …
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C1, demonstrative, formal, possessive, professional, PRONOUNS / DD, IO, of, that, those, unfamiliar
Point 103 in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘THAT OF’, ‘THOSE OF’ as a possessive form, in formal and professional contexts. A search in iWeb for: that|those of * * * 1 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE 15147 2 THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE 11948 3 THOSE OF US WHO ARE 9479 4 …
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C1, DETERMINERS, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS, quantity / boys, categories, circumstances, conditions, DD, DD2, either, events, issues, items, locations, major, men, methods, neither, NN2, of, options, products, situations, these, things, those
‘Either’ can mean “the one or the other.” ‘Neither’ can mean “not the one and not the other” or “not either.” C1 English Grammar Profile point 63 in DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘either’ and ‘neither’ + ‘of’ with plural noun phrases or pronouns. For example: Neither of these men is Chaney. (note the subject-verb agreement!) listen I don’t think …
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C2, demonstrative, DETERMINERS, disapproval, distancing / DD1, DD2, humble, JJ, kind, leap, N, of, pounds, pressure, that, those, unwanted
C2 point 68 in DETERMINERS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘that’ and ‘those’ to convey emotional distance, often to express disapproval. The two examples in the EGP: that_DD1 sort_NN1 of_IO behaviour_NN1 those_DD2 so-called_JJ heroes_NN2 Emotional distance or disapproval is not possible to locate in corpora automatically. We can start by copying the language patterns above. But really, …
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B1, demonstrative, DETERMINERS, modify, PRONOUNS, quantity / all, DD, MC1, of, one, PELIC, some, that, these, this, those, was
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 52 in the category of PRONOUNS / demonstratives is defined as: quantifying determiners + ‘of’ with demonstrative pronouns An iWeb search for: _DD of _DD 1 SOME OF THESE 258542 STUDENT example: The hospitality in Saudi Arabia is very different between provinces. Some of these have traditional hospitality, but others have modern hospitality. PELIC Arabic male level 3 …
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A2, demonstrative, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, plural / activities, areas, cases, companies, DD2, files, guys, ideas, instructions, kids, NN2, PELIC, programs, sites, terms, these, those, types
In the English Grammar Profile, A2 points 16 & 17 in the category of DETERMINERS/demonstratives is about the use of ‘these’ and ‘those’ with plural nouns. We did an iWeb search for: these|those _NN2 1 THESE THINGS 291847 Collocates of ‘these things‘ in the MOVIE corpus: 1 HAPPEN 483 These things happen. Don’t worry about it. listen 2 SOMETIMES 93 …
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B2, PRONOUNS / DD2, NN2, these, those
Point 73 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: ‘these ones’, ‘those ones’ as a substitute for plural countable nouns which have already been mentioned or are obvious from the context. A look for * * these|those ones * * in the iWeb corpus: 1 ONE OF THOSE ONES WHERE YOU 29 The …
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