world – English Grammar Profiler

NOUNS, phrases / a, APPGE, best, both, business, end, feel, good, JJ, my, of, on, out, the, their, this, top, VD, whole, world, worlds

In this post, we give examples of 7 different ways the noun ‘world‘ is used in English.  In the English Vocabulary Profile at A2: your world = your life and experiences A search in NOW corpus for: _APPGE world 1 OUR WORLD 67437 This may be literally our planet. 2 THEIR WORLD 33865 Note that ‘their’ …

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ACL / academic, achievement, career, community, debate, discipline, discourse, institution, journal, life, performance, research, skill, study, success, work, world, writing, year

STUDENT EXAMPLE: During my first and second academic years, I never went to the library. Chinese female level 5 writing class. iWeb ranking: 1 ACADEMIC YEAR 68730 2 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT 21832 3 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE 16841 4 ACADEMIC SUCCESS 16798 5 ACADEMIC RESEARCH 11633 6 ACADEMIC WORK 7408 7 ACADEMIC CAREER 7300 8 ACADEMIC COMMUNITY 6014 9 ACADEMIC STUDY 5326 10 ACADEMIC WRITING 5230 11 ACADEMIC INSTITUTION …

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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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ADJECTIVES, B1, NOUNS, phrases, PREPOSITIONS / challenging, common, efficient, II, in, JJ, likely, method, natural, PELIC, powerful, recent, reliable, rgt, security, the, world, _AT

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 37 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: an increasing range of complex noun phrases with a superlative adjective + prepositional phrase, to talk about something unique. *In both EGP examples the prepositional phrase that follows is either: of_IO my_APPGE life_NN1 in_II our_APPGE lives_NN2 A search in COCA for: …

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