Point 36 in CLAUSES/relative is defined as: defining relative clause, without a relative pronoun This is a hard structure to locate in corpora. We can start by searching for: _NN _PP _VV 1 TIME IT TAKES 41863 2 INFORMATION YOU NEED Korean,Male,5,w Every system, such as ticketing, baggage checking, hotel booking and schedule changing is controlled by computers , and you can get information you need at nearby computers. *our grammar gets hidden by B1 […]
Category: A2
THIS (pronoun)
Point 36 in PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘this’ as a pronoun with singular reference. If we look at what is to the right 4 spaces on iWeb corpus: this * * * * (but remember we are looking for a pronoun, not a determiner before a noun.) 1 THIS IS ONE OF THE 109499 2 […]
LINKING ADVERBS / SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
Point 19 in A2 ADVERBS as modifiers is defined as: LINKING limited range of adverbs (‘also’, ‘so’, ‘however’) to show a relationship between two clauses or sentences. The EGP examples: I_PPIS1 also_RR bought_VVD ,_, so_CS I_PPIS1 decided_VVD However_RR ,_, the_AT clothes_NN2 were_VBDR cheap_JJ ._. This point partially overlaps point 11 in B1 CONJUNCTIONS/subordinating which is […]
adjective + prepositional phrase
Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples are: good_JJ for_IF my_APPGE body_NN1 full_JJ of_IO people_NN A search on iWeb for: _JJ _I _A _N 1 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 29940 2 AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC 17774 […]
past simple negative
Point 10 in the category of NEGATION is defined as: negative statements of main verbs in the past simple with ‘didn’t’ + main verb A search in iWeb for: did n’t _VVI 1 DID N’T KNOW 189531 2 DID N’T WANT 163517 3 DID N’T GET 103113 4 DID N’T THINK 70287 5 DID N’T […]
plural noun + -ES
Point 19 in NOUNS is defined as: plurals by adding ‘-es’ to countable nouns ending in ‘-o’, ‘-ch’, ‘-s’, ‘-sh’, ‘-x’ or ‘-z’. A search on iWeb for: *oes_N 1 SHOES 688509 2 HEROES 282618 PELIC STUDENT: Male,623,4,w Dressing up like super heroes is quite popular. *The above example is hidden by other grammar points. 3 POTATOES 225187 4 TOMATOES […]
THE + adjective + noun
Point 36 in DETERMINERs/articles is defined as: ‘the’ + adjectives in a noun phrase, to specify An iWeb search: the _JJ _NN 1 THE OTHER HAND 459204 2 THE BEST WAY 361919 3 THE ONLY WAY 263862 Chinese,Female,4,g That is the only way to avoid the noise disturbing me. 4 THE OTHER SIDE 258462 5 THE ONLY THING 254602 6 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT […]
WILL (future simple)
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 here. We also are not covering ‘will’ and something that is easier to formally differentiate the grammar point. These points are doubled up on Future […]
BE + adjective
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 ARE AVAILABLE 797442 4 IS IMPORTANT 780459 5 IS ONLY 690395 6 IS GOOD 427370 7 BE AVAILABLE 424771 8 IS GREAT 412719 9 IS […]
THESE | THOSE + plural noun
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 THESE TERMS 141602 4 THESE GUYS 121511 5 THESE TYPES 109413 6 THESE ISSUES 102295 7 THESE QUESTIONS 96723 8 THESE CHANGES 91304 9 THESE […]