visual – English Grammar Profiler

ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual

STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: 1 CONCEPTS 2978 2 AN 1170 3 SUCH 302 4 UNDERSTAND 183 5 CONCRETE 149 6 RATHER 102 7 UNDERSTANDING 101 8 ABILITY 74 …

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ADJECTIVES / actual, additional, annual, critical, emotional, equal, formal, functional, general, individual, international, JJ, local, national, natural, normal, original, personal, real, SPECIAL, total, traditional, usual, virtual, visual

Compared to looking at the -able suffix endings which were very advanced vocabulary.  We mean beyond what most general English classes would need to learn.  The ‘-al’ suffixes are all around the B levels or intermediate.  Therefore this list is a good list of adjectives for students to learn that are around intermediate. We found …

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