adverb + adjective + noun

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 32 in the category of NOUNs is defined as:

complex noun phrases with adverb + adjective + noun


EXPERT EXAMPLE:

And, you knowthis is a fairly transparent example.

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*This overlaps B1 noun phrases in the category of ADJECTIVES and clashes with C1 in the category of modality (emphasis).


A search in iWeb for:

_RR _JJ _NN

1 PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION 32885
2 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES 6874
3 REALLY LONG TIME 6761
4 REALLY GOOD JOB 5701
5 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS 5099
6 MUCH BETTER JOB 4896
7 GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING 4418
8 MUCH BETTER CHANCE 4129
9 RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER 4099
10 REALLY HARD TIME 3875
11 RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD 3749
12 REALLY GOOD IDEA 3747
13 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE 3534
14 RELATIVELY SHORT TIME 3476
15 LITTLE EXTRA TIME 3348
16 RELATIVELY LOW COST 2904
17 LIGHTLY FLOURED SURFACE 2826
18 GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS 2734
19 NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION 2706
20 MUCH BETTER WAY 2674
21 WIDE OPEN SPACES 2672
22 MUCH BETTER IDEA 2646
23 MUCH HIGHER LEVEL 2606
24 MUCH LOWER COST 2443
25 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY 2406
26 REALLY GOOD TIME 2326
27 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY 2315
28 MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY 2284
29 EXTREMELY HIGH QUALITY 2252
30 RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT 2240
31 MUCH LOWER PRICE 2227
32 MUCH WIDER RANGE 2223


33 REALLY GOOD WAY 2196

TLC SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE:

It is really good way to not only ride a bicycle but also to see all of the city.

male Argentina B2


34 REALLY GOOD STUFF 2157
35 PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION 2136
36 MUCH BETTER OPTION 2107
37 RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD 2099
38 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION 2097
39 REALLY GOOD FRIENDS 2094
40 REALLY GOOD QUALITY 2084
41 REALLY ONLY NEED 2072
42 MUCH BETTER PLACE 2039
43 MUCH HIGHER RATE 2036
44 STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE 2031
45 REALLY NICE GUY 2030
46 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES 2026
47 JUST PLAIN FUN 1977
48 INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT ROLE 1966
49 LITTLE EXTRA MONEY 1955
50 JUST COMMON SENSE 1938
51 MUCH BETTER POSITION 1913
52 COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS 1894
53 MUCH EASIER TIME 1887
54 REGIONALLY ACCREDITED INSTITUTION 1855
55 EVEN BETTER RESULTS 1852
56 MUCH LARGER SCALE 1834
57 EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS 1833
58 MUCH BETTER RESULTS 1824
59 MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING 1800
60 CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION 1776
61 REALLY GOOD THING 1771
62 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY 1758
63 CLOSELY RELATED FIELD 1754
64 DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOWS 1748
65 MUCH SMALLER SCALE 1743
66 STILL EARLY DAYS 1737
67 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT APPROACH 1728
68 WELL DRAINED SOIL 1724
69 MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP 1711
70 GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS 1710
71 FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN 1692
72 MUCH HIGHER QUALITY 1687
73 NO LONGER WORK 1673
74 ENTIRELY NEW WAY 1656
75 ALMOST DAILY BASIS 1654
76 LITTLE EXTRA HELP 1649
77 REALLY BAD IDEA 1643
78 MUCH HIGHER RISK 1633
79 REALLY BIG DEAL 1614
80 MUCH FASTER RATE 1609
81 MUCH BETTER QUALITY 1607
82 REALLY HIGH QUALITY 1604
83 HARD BOILED EGGS 1589
84 ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL 1550
85 MUCH HIGHER PRICE 1544
86 FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER 1534
87 REALLY GOOD DEAL 1511
88 HIGHLY PROFICIENT STUDENT 1509
89 MUCH BETTER CHOICE 1482
90 MUCH LONGER TIME 1469
91 REALLY GOOD TEAM 1458
92 NO LONGER NEED 1456
93 LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT 1454
94 HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MARKET 1441
95 RELATIVELY SMALL SIZE 1438
96 LITTLE EXTRA CASH 1430
97 STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES 1430
98 EVEN HIGHER LEVEL 1419
99 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS 1418
100 PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK 1394


A2:
almost, available, boiled, cash, check, colleges, cost, daily, difference, differences, double, even, extra, field, guy, high, higher, idea, information, just, larger, level, low, lower, market, pepper, price, size, spaces, still, story, team, way, wide, wider
B1:
accepted, amount, amounts, approach, chance, choice, common sense, completely, contract, disease, diseases, efforts, extremely, fully, generally, ground, lightly, option, period, personally, plain, position, qualified, quality, range, reasonable, relationship, results, role, stuff
B2:
basis, beneficial, closely, competitive, continuously, deal, entirely, highly, increasingly, infection, infections, institution, legally, rapidly, rate, related, relatively, risk, scale, significant, slightly, soil, surface, surgery
C1:
domain, genetically modified, historically, publicly, transmitted, variable


EXPERT EXAMPLE:

Announcing that your pronouns are they/them is just poor grammar, she tweeted.

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