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In this post, we cover the hard-to-distinguish proficiency levels when using the future simple ‘will’.  Note that some of these overlap with ‘shall’ but we are not focussed on that…

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Point 16 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: increasing range of adjectives predicatively, after ‘be’. A search on iWeb for _VB _JJ 1 BE SURE 833740 2 IS AVAILABLE 810530 3…

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Points 16 & 17 in DETERMINERS/demonstratives are the use of ‘these’ and ‘those’ with plural nouns. iWeb search for these|those _NN2 1 THESE THINGS 291847 2 THOSE THINGS 157643 3…

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Point 14 in  DETERMINERS/possessives is defined as: ‘S after singular or proper nouns to indicate possession. in iWeb _N ‘s_GE  is producing errors on the search, so here we just…

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Point 56 in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘these’ to refer to something with immediate relevance which has already been mentioned. iWeb search: * * * these .…

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Point 62 in the category of FUTURE is defined as: present simple after speech act verbs expressing suggestions and obligation. This is not easily located formally in corpora but we…

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In this post, we cover 6 points dealing with ‘should’ across A2 and B1 by examining the English Grammar Profile examples for formal similarities that might help us identify complexity…

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Point 4 in VERBS/prepositional A1 is defined as: limited range of prepositional verbs followed by noun or pronoun objects. The examples in the EGP: listen_VV0 to_II music_NN1 look_VVI after_II her_PPHO1…

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Point 35 in PRONOUNS/substitution is defined as: substitute for singular countable nouns which have already been mentioned or are obvious from the context. *There are a few other points that…

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At B1 there are many points covering the use of ‘another’.  Considering that they are all at the same level, one is not sure why there are so many different…

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