war – English Grammar Profiler

A2, B1, NOUNS, phrases, possessive, PRONOUNS / ambition, article, blog, brain, classmate, colleague, colleagues, cousin, customer, dream, experience, fan, fault, favourites, fear, friend, friends, girlfriend, goal, habit, heart, hero, hobby, idea, interest, land, mate, member, mind, mine, NN, of, partner, patient, pleasure, post, posts, PPGE, professor, project, recipe, relative, song, story, TLC, uncle, war, worker, yours

Here is another example of overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile. B1 Point 37 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN Which overlaps the more specific B1 point 47 in the category of PRONOUNS: possessive pronoun ‘yours’ after noun + ‘of’. It would be very beneficial …

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B1, complements, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reciprocal, VERBS / ABLE, against, along, attracted, away, common, communicate, compete, competition, connect, connected, contact, distance, each, far, feelings, front, II, independent, look out, mirror, off, other, relation, respect, share, similar, so, TLC, top, touch, VV, war

Point 60 in the category of PRONOUNS/reciprocal is defined as: ‘each other’ as the object of a verb or complement of a preposition to talk about the mutual behaviour of two or more people. An iWeb search for: * * * each other 1 ON TOP OF EACH OTHER 13130 (note that many of these …

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affirmative, B1, PAST, perfect, simple / agreed, become, company, crowd, ended, failed, fallen, grown, had, happened, heart, lost, moved, passed, received, returned, set, team, VVN, war, won

Here are examples of past perfect simple affirmative: Instead, the Ryans had decided to take a more old-fashioned route. context I must say I‘d hoped for better. listen In the English Grammar Profile, B1 points 34 in the category of PAST are defined as: past perfect simple: a time before another time in the past. and B1 point 38 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect …

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C2, demonstrative, DETERMINERS, highlight, NOUNS, positive, possessive, PRONOUNS / his, JJ, mine, NN, of, passion, PPGE, theirs, this, war, world

Here are examples of using the determiner ‘this’ + noun + ‘of’ a possessive pronoun to highlight: I’m impressed at how the students have picked up on this war of his. listen   In this world of theirs, nothing is bad or evil. listen C2 point 70 in DETERMINERS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘this’ + noun + ‘of’ + possessive pronoun to highlight something, often in a positive way. An iWeb search for: this _NN of …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, article, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, specify / following, future, highest, JJ, latest, line, news, NN, only, PELIC, real, reason, side, term, the, thing, war, way, whole

In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 36 in DETERMINERs/articles is defined as: ‘the’ + adjectives in a noun phrase, to specify For example: How much was the cost of living in the big city? An iWeb search for: the _JJ _NN 1 THE OTHER HAND 459204 2 THE BEST WAY 361919 3 THE ONLY WAY 263862 That is the only way to avoid the noise disturbing me. PELIC STUDENT: Chinese Female level …

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