wildest – English Grammar Profiler

A search for nouns collocating with ‘wild‘ in the NOW corpus: 1 CARD 41920 This most common collocate is unlisted in the English Vocabulary Profile.  A google definition of ‘wild card‘: a playing card that can have any value, suit, colour, or other property in a game at the discretion of the player holding it. …

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In the English Grammar Profile, B1 Point 48 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: noun phrases with a range of determiners before a superlative adjective. *This should include a range of nouns because at A2 it is a limited range.  One can guess that ‘my’ ‘your’ can still be B1 if the noun …

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Point 12 in ADJECTIVES is defined as: form a noun phrase with ‘my’ or ‘your’ + superlative adjective + noun, with a limited range of nouns and contexts. A search in iWeb for: my|your _JJT _NN 1 YOUR BEST BET 34849 2 MY BEST FRIEND 30957 3 YOUR BEST FRIEND 18855 4 MY BEST FRIENDS …

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