When ESL teachers look at student texts they often intuitively notice like all native speakers of a language that which is inaccurate. Yet, B1 is the level that most General English students are in and are also taking on most of the new language and also making most the errors. It is easy to mark […]
Category: writing
Level 2 writing texts in PELIC
It is very hard to get a corpus of elementary student texts to work with to explore what grammar and vocabulary beginners really can use. We have collected all the level 2 writing texts from PELIC into one file and C7 tagged it. Then put it through the ‘complexity checker’ here at EnglishGrammar.Pro and followed […]
as you know
Point 1 in the category of discourse markers, writing and ORGANISING is defined as: ‘as you know’ as a discourse marker of shared knowledge. 1 AS YOU KNOW , I AM A 130 2 AS YOU KNOW , I ‘M A 87 3 AS YOU KNOW , I ‘VE BEEN 86 4 AS YOU KNOW […]
organising contrast
Point 4 in DISCOURSE MARKERS and in writing is defined as: ORGANISING with a range of phrases as discourse markers to introduce contrasting statements. The English Grammar Profile examples listed are: ‘on the one hand’, ‘on the other hand’ and ‘on the contrary’. They seem to start sentences more often than not. Ngrams from iWeb […]