equal – English Grammar Profiler

Not + everyone | everything | every | all

C1, DETERMINERS, indefinite, NEGATIVE, PRONOUNS

In the English Grammar Profile, C1 point 26 in the category of NEGATION is defined as: ‘not’ with indefinite pronouns ‘everyone’ and ‘everything’ and determiners ‘every’, ‘all’ For example: Not everyone is always looking for easier. (more context) Besides, not everyone needs a decent education. (more context) PELIC student example: level 3 Portuguese female: Finally, not all things you think to do in this world can turn out in the way you try to do them. […]

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-AL adjective suffix

ADJECTIVES

Compared to looking at the -able suffix endings which were very advanced vocabulary. We mean beyond what most general English classes would need to learn. The ‘-al’ suffixes are all around the B levels or intermediate. Therefore this list is a good list of adjectives for students to learn that are around intermediate. We found

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MUST + modal adverb

ADVERBS, C2, MODALITY, must, VERBS

These are the 12 adverbs I would teach with “must” to advanced students: correctly, either, generally, somehow, therefore, constantly, currently, necessarily, simply, successfully, surely, satisfactorily, ultimately.

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