There are two similar points at C2 for listing adjectives. Point 76 at C2 in ADJECTIVES/combining is defined as: list of adjectives in ellipted clauses before and after a noun, to give focus. The EGP examples contain: Imaginative_JJ ,_, good-humoured_JJ ,_, friendly_JJ ,_, he_PPHS1 was_VBDZ … The_AT latter_DA fat_NN1 ,_, ugly_JJ and_CC sick_NN1 blows_VVZ … […]
Category: B1
all | one | some OF these | that
Point 52 in PRONOUNS/demonstratives/MODIFYING is defined as: quantifying determiners + ‘of’ with demonstrative pronouns An iWeb search for _DD of _DD 1 SOME OF THESE 258542 PELIC STUDENT: Arabic,Male,3,w The hospitality in Saudi Arabia is very different between provinces. Some of these have traditional hospitality, but others have modern hospitality. 2 ANY OF THESE 147378 3 EACH OF THESE 143569 4 SOME OF THOSE 90717 5 SOME OF […]
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 […]
THESE (pronoun)
Point 56 in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘these’ to refer to something with immediate relevance which has already been mentioned. iWeb search: * * * these . 1 A COMBINATION OF THESE . 839 2 A FEW OF THESE . 661 3 IS ONE OF THESE . 538 4 HAVE ONE OF […]
should
In this post, we cover 6 points dealing with ‘should’ across A2 and B1 by examining the English Grammar Profile examples for formal similarities that might help us identify complexity in corpora. A2 can be summarised as: you|we should _VVI and the infinitives are all A1. For B1 it is more complex. We started by […]
verb + preposition + object
Point 4 in VERBS/prepositional A1 is defined as: limited range of prepositional verbs followed by noun or pronoun objects. The examples in the EGP: listen_VV0 to_II music_NN1 look_VVI after_II her_PPHO1 look_VVI for_IF mushrooms_NN2 Point 31 at B1 is the same as above except: “increasing range”. *There is no other higher-level for this. And really this […]
ANOTHER
At B1 there are many points covering the use of ‘another’. Considering that they are all at the same level, one is not sure why there are so many different entries. Points 38, 41, 53 in DETERMINERS/articles are defined as: ‘another’ to talk about something additional. ‘another’ with singular nouns. ‘another’ to talk about something […]
might | should have + past participle
Point 64 in the category of MODALITY/PAST is ‘should’ have + ‘-ed’, but might is also listed at the same level. An iWeb search for: should|might have _VVN 1 SHOULD HAVE KNOWN 12941 2 SHOULD HAVE TAKEN 6706 3 SHOULD HAVE GONE 6439 4 SHOULD HAVE MADE 6207 5 MIGHT HAVE NOTICED 6193 6 MIGHT […]
phrasal verbs
There are 9 similar points across the English Grammar Profile in the category of VERBS covering phrasal verbs across the levels. And the differentiation between the levels becomes difficult to interpret since it is more about the vocabulary. For this reason, the English Vocabulary Profile is probably more beneficial even though the logic of what […]
degree adverb modifying preposition
Point 9 in PREPOSITIONS is defined as: adverbs of degree to modify prepositions and prepositional phrases. (have to check each match that it’s actually modifying the preposition and not something else) A check on google for Adverbs of degree: Common adverbs of degree: Almost, nearly, quite, just, too, enough, hardly, scarcely, completely, very, extremely. extremely, especially, […]