If you are teaching a pre-intermediate class about how we get our knowledge or health, then this grammar and vocabulary will be appropriate.
Category: clauses
Would + limited range of adverbs
If you were to choose which adverbs to teach with “would”, could you just rely on the English Grammar Profile to suggest which ones?
Reported Statements
B1 or B2 reported speech?
if it were to infinitve
Point 119 in clauses collocated in the NOW corpus: 1 IF IT WERE TO BE 115 most of these are followed by a past participle, a search of which are: 1 IF IT WERE TO BE IMPLEMENTED 5 2 IF IT WERE TO BE APPLIED 5 3 IF IT WERE TO BE MADE 4 4 […]
defining clauses with “that/who” as object relative pronouns
At A2 level, learners can use “that” to refer to things such as a singular group or “team” of people, whereas at B1 “that” can be used to refer to the humans: “people, actors, friends or a girl”. That is what these two points on the English Grammar Profile seem to suggest. The explanations do […]
Inversion in clauses with conditions and formality
This is another post that points at overlapping points on the English Grammar Profile. Parts of two points are worded differently but basically locate the same structure for “should” starting a sentence. The only noticeable difference for these points in succession is that one is labelled as conditional and the other located in a “formal […]
Is “Unless” B1 or B2?
In the English Vocabulary Profile, the pictured item “unless” has one level = B1. 18 CONJUNCTIONS subordinating B2 3 wide range of simple subordinating conjunctions (‘once, whereas, unless, except (that) provided (that)’), to introduce a subordinate clause. Getting to work by car is comfortable, and faster unless you are caught in a traffic jam. Unless […]
Limiting the scale of comparison
There’s no better place or way to learn advanced grammar than here.
if *ed (.|,) Add more salt if needed.
It is not so clear on the English grammar profile, why they say “if + ed endings”. Their examples include words that get tagged as past participles and adjectives, yet to help maintain focus, this entry does look at just the word ending “ed”. What we found here is that the best examples lead back […]