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The use of ‘their’ is confusing to give level to, because there is differing information between the English Vocabulary and Grammar Profiles, and secondly the uses are hard to locate in corpora automatically. At B2, Point 58 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessive is defined as: GENERIC ‘THEIR’ before nouns to refer to a […]

Point 57 in the category of DETERMINERS that are possessive is defined as PLURAL NOUN + S’ Our top 25 examples in iWeb corpus for _nn2 ‘ are: 1 STUDENTS ‘ 101378 2 CUSTOMERS ‘ 52666 3 PARENTS ‘ 52218 4 KIDS ‘ 51230 KIDS ‘ CLUB 1494 5 WORKERS ‘ 46708 6 GIRLS ‘ […]

Point 56 in the category of DETERMINERS and articles is defined as “the” in comparative phrases ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘worse’, ‘better’ * the more’, ‘less’, ‘worse’ * to talk about one thing that is affected by another. comparative clauses A search on iWeb for the _rgr shows that ‘the more’ is much more common than ‘the […]

Point 55 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessives is defined as ‘s after a noun phrase with ‘of’ to indicate possession. There is no mention that there must be no following noun after ‘s It also overlaps point 46 in NOUNS and phrases, defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE DETERMINER + NOUN + […]

Point 54 in the category of DETERMINERS & possessives is defined as possessive determiner ‘its’ before nouns to refer to a singular inanimate subject or object. Search for clusters that are not a mistake for ‘it is’ on iWeb corpus: ITS WAY TO THE 11703 ITS KIND IN THE 11249 ITS OWN RIGHT . 10405 […]

In the iWeb corpus we can run up to 4 wildcards with different combinations: ‘both * * and * *’ 1 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN 28482 2 BOTH ON AND OFF 13750 3 BOTH YOU AND YOUR 13393 4 BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE 11752 5 BOTH MALE AND FEMALE 9349 (most common collocate: ‘organs’) […]

There are two overlapping points in the English Grammar Profile at B2 for ‘neither nor’. Point 104 in CLAUSES & coordinated is defined as: combine two main clauses of the same type using ‘neither’ in front or mid-position, followed by ‘nor’ to introduce the second clause, for emphasis. Point 15 in the Conjunctions & coordinating […]

Point 103 in the category of CLAUSES & comparatives is defined as: COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE + ‘THAN’ + NON-FINITE CLAUSE ‘than’ + an increasing range of non-finite clauses (to-infinitive, reduced clause) forming the second part of a comparison after a comparative adjective. Here are some examples: The numbers are higher than expected. To be kind is more […]

Point 102 in the category of CLAUSES that are relative is defined as: defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses ending in a preposition, with ‘who/which/that’ as the complement of the preposition. Here are the 4 most common prepositions at the end of a sentence. When we do a manual search on the concordances, we […]

Point 101 in CLAUSES & comparatives is defined as ‘THE SAME’ (+ NOUN) + ‘AS’ + CLAUSE Sadly there is no mention of whether this is only finite clauses because in iWeb a great deal of the following verbs are participles suggesting this is usually followed non-finite clauses. the same as * * * Here […]