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 […]
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 […]
Point 22 in DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with plural nouns ‘all’, ‘both’, ‘a few’ In iWeb: all|both _NN2 1 BOTH SIDES 258617 2 ALL THINGS 222190 3 ALL KINDS 211611 4 ALL SORTS 173460 5 ALL AGES 156459 6 ALL STUDENTS 134399 7 ALL ASPECTS 131110 8 ALL TYPES 115579 […]
Point 13 in DETERMINERS is defined as: range of quantifying determiners (‘some’, ‘any’, ‘no’, ‘more’, ‘a lot of’) with both plural nouns and uncountable nouns. We search in iWeb for: more|any|no|some _NN 1 MORE INFORMATION 911327 2 SOME PEOPLE 582076 3 SOME TIME 509036 4 ANY TIME 495787 5 NO WAY 343794 6 NO IDEA […]
Point 94 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: plural reflexive pronouns after prepositions where the object of the preposition is the same as the subject of the verb. *Note this point is practically already covered in B2 Point 80, and the complexity checker may highlight B2 point 74 for ‘yourselves’ for politeness, also. […]
1 CHRISTIANS (NN2) 300655 2 PHYSICIANS (NN2) 274754 3 MUSICIANS (NN2) 225627 4 POLITICIANS (NN2) 211753 5 INDIANS (NN2) 167921 6 CANADIANS (NN2) 156879 7 TECHNICIANS (NN2) 129132 8 GUARDIANS (NN2) 99782 9 AUSTRALIANS (NN2) 98618 10 CIVILIANS (NN2) 92291 11 HISTORIANS (NN2) 81859 12 RUSSIANS (NN2) 71180 13 CLINICIANS (NN2) 62328 14 CORINTHIANS (NN2) […]
1 SERIES (NN) 3166663 2 COMPANIES (NN2) 2679310 3 ACTIVITIES (NN2) 1981104 4 COUNTRIES (NN2) 1459881 5 OPPORTUNITIES (NN2) 1456705 6 STUDIES (NN2) 1426922 7 FAMILIES (NN2) 1348777 8 STORIES (NN2) 1250906 9 PROPERTIES (NN2) 984184 10 FACILITIES (NN2) 920963 11 SPECIES (NN) 920040 12 PARTIES (NN2) 912973 13 COMMUNITIES (NN2) 910936 14 POLICIES (NN2) […]
Between an adjective and a preposition, a word ending in ‘-ES’ is a plural noun. 1 DIFFERENT (JJ) TYPES (NN2) OF (IO) 214636 2 OTHER (JJ) TYPES (NN2) OF (IO) 88973 3 VARIOUS (JJ) TYPES (NN2) OF (IO) 44725 4 CERTAIN (JJ) TYPES (NN2) OF (IO) 40226 5 EARLY (JJ) STAGES (NN2) OF (IO) 33456 […]
In the top 100 of DA2 + *s there are a few plural time nouns but most are plural nouns. The only exception is ‘many as’ This is the count: (nn2): 73 many: 53 few: 31 (nnt2): 22 several: 16 years: 3 days: 3 times: 3 months: 3 ways: 3 hours: 3 things: 3 others: […]
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