variety – 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, emphasis, NOUNS, phrases / a, additional, amount, amounts, care, condition, confidential, data, deal, demand, difference, duties, expectations, experience, fan, fond, forward, high, hopes, huge, idea, ideas, information, JJ, large, lengths, level, levels, low, matters, memories, news, NN, notice, period, personal, post, price, prices, product, property, proximity, quality, range, real, regard, results, scale, service, shape, simple, space, SPECIAL, standards, statements, such, tough, value, variety, way, wide, wonderful

Point 41 in the category of  NOUNS is defined as: noun phrases with ‘such a’ + adjective + singular noun and ‘such’ + adjective + plural noun, to give emphasis.   An iWeb search for: such a _JJ _NN 1 SUCH A LONG TIME 7187 2 SUCH A BIG DEAL 6247 3 SUCH A SHORT …

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A2, B1, FOCUS, PASSIVES / accessed, accompanied, adding, amazed, ambulance, amended, amount, appointed, approved, attended, based, bias, bound, by, calculated, calling, caused, clicking, compensated, completed, complicated, considered, contacting, council, created, destroyed, determined, disabled, dividing, enabled, explained, fact, fire, funded, governed, higher, hit, inserting, law, laws, meant, national, news, notified, obtained, out, owned, PELIC, pitch, president, protected, punished, ranked, reached, reduced, regarded, replaced, required, results, selected, size, southern, striking, struck, succeeded, supported, surprised, survived, term, terms, variety, VB, vehicle, virus, VVN, widow

A2 point 2 in the category of PASSIVES : ‘BY’ to add information about something already known. B1 point 12 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: passive with ‘by’ to give focus. *note any use of ‘by’ is at least A2 in the EVP. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: All Chinese fields are owned by the Chinese government. Chinese female Level 3 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, uncountable / air, alcohol, attention, beauty, blood, choice, competition, control, credit, damage, detail, difficulty, effort, energy, excitement, fuel, heat, history, hope, information, interest, knowledge, liquid, material, much, NN1, oil, pain, PELIC, power, respect, sense, so, space, stress, stuff, success, support, talent, TLC, too, trouble, value, variety, weight

Point 51 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘SO MUCH’, ‘TOO MUCH’ WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS too|so much _NN1 1 SO MUCH FUN 51051 2 SO MUCH MONEY 13915 3 TOO MUCH MONEY 12901 4 TOO MUCH TROUBLE 10270 5 TOO MUCH WORK 9680 6 TOO MUCH PRESSURE 8394 7 TOO MUCH INFORMATION 8108 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, informal, NOUNS, quantity, spoken, uncountable / a, advice, air, bit, blood, break, care, cash, cooler, DA1, detail, difference, exercise, gift, guy, history, honey, hope, information, JJ, lemon, little, luck, magic, NN, of, oil, pain, PELIC, piece, plastic, practice, push, rest, side, slice, space, story, variety, video, way

B1 English Grammar Profile point 49 in DETERMINERS is defined as: quantifying determiners with uncountable nouns, often in informal and/or spoken contexts (‘a little’, ‘a bit of’ and ‘a little bit of’) *note, ‘little’ is hard to tag as a determiner and not an adjective.  Also, we believe that pronouns and other determiners should be …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, modify, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range / accident, around, available, blood, call, corner, dead, download, fact, fit, free, front, full, further, heavy, high, idea, II, JJ, largest, low, luck, market, middle, N, open, pleased, public, rich, sale, size, strong, the, TLC, to, too, true, variety, way, web, yourself

There is overlap between these two A2 English Grammar Profile points: Point 6 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined: ‘too’ + adjective + prepositional phrase Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples for range are: …

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