The position of the adjective when placed directly before a noun is referred to being in the attributive position. At lower levels, students already do this so here it becomes important to look at the range of adjectives used to create these noun phrases. One could just leave this to vocabulary if it were not for the fact that the adjective describes the noun and gives that noun a higher level of the language. The problem is, the most frequent adjectives are not the same as the English Vocabulary Profile has listed.
The English Grammar Profile has these noun phrases listed as examples for what it considers to be the range at the B1 level:
main_JJ character_NN1
complicated_JJ situation_NN1
long_JJ dark_JJ hair_NN1
short_JJ fair_JJ curly_JJ hair_NN1
famous_JJ restaurant_NN1
delicious_JJ local_JJ food_NN1
amusing_JJ and_CC entertaining_JJ action_NN1
Yet when we check them at textinspector.com we get A1 adjectives as evidence of B1 level…
main B1 jj character B1 nn1
complicated B1 jj situation B1 nn1
long A1 jj dark A1 jj hair A1 nn1
short A1 jj fair A2 jj curly B1 jj hair A1 nn1
famous A1 jj restaurant A1 nn1
delicious B1 jj local B1 jj food A1 nn1
amusing B1 jj and A1 cc entertaining B1 jj action B1 nn1
In green, the vocabulary is already at B1 level so identifying the phrase for complexity sake has little value. Then there is the parts in yellow which are not straightforward to interpret what they are thinking about at Cambridge.
We can take a guess that they may be using a mathematical equation for the first example: “long A1 jj dark A1 jj hair A1 nn1“. That being able to string together two A1s together doubles their complexity value. As in A1+A1=A2. This is just a guess which we can possibly see some logic behind. However, how can we say that: “famous A1 jj restaurant A1 nn1” could be an example of a greater range of adjectives before a noun?
The only guess is that there must be some kind of cut off even within the A1 proficiency band.
As we investigate, we find that “famous” is listed as the 205th most frequent word tagged *.[JJ] in iWeb corpus, with 914002 instances. Of course, the iWeb is online English and not the whole story on frequency but it does say something about just how rare a word it is, regardless of whether the English Vocabulary Profile has found it to be a word that elementary students use in their output.
Since “range” is quite a vague concept in the EGP it is hard to pinpoint many of the proficiency points of grammar. There is naturally going to seem to be a relationship between the type of vocabulary that can be checked on text inspector at each level to designate the proficiency of writing to some degree, but it also seems there is a more complex unsaid algorithm unrelated to the EVP when it comes vocabulary range within an EGP grammar point. It makes total sense that this is the case too since you can’t designate range just against what other learners can or can’t do. Range in the EGP must be benchmarked against frequency bands of another scale which has not been released to the public.
Percentage of the most frequent 205 adjectives against CEFR levels from text inspector
A1 61 (29.61%) A2 60 (29.13%) B1 45 (21.84%) B2 32 (15.53%) C1 1 (0.49%) Unlisted 7 (3.40%)
Most frequent adjectives (1000 JJ) on iWeb:
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2 NEW 19901981
3 ONLY 15253242
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6 DIFFERENT 7870376
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8 HIGH 7087105
9 AVAILABLE 6447329
10 SURE 5970318
11 IMPORTANT 5492894
12 FREE 5445293
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14 BIG 5102966
15 OLD 4898539
16 FULL 4875367
17 LONG 4397978
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19 POSSIBLE 4214479
20 LARGE 4110788
21 LOCAL 4091342
22 REAL 4061289
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81 PRIVATE 1940742
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87 MULTIPLE 1854953
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103 FEDERAL 1642462
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161 POOR 1158803
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843 CORRESPONDING 189883
844 TENDER 189681
845 SYNTHETIC 189569
846 FORWARD 189505
847 INTEGRAL 189283
848 DATE 188503
849 WORTHY 188414
850 SPACIOUS 188409
851 ELDERLY 188397
852 ALLEGED 188324
853 USELESS 188268
854 CONTROVERSIAL 188109
855 THERMAL 188047
856 PASSIVE 187627
857 LOVING 187620
858 SCHEDULED 186833
859 NONPROFIT 186805
860 TECHNOLOGICAL 186722
861 HEALTHIER 186662
862 SUNNY 186511
863 LITERARY 186030
864 HANDS-ON 185970
865 EXPERIMENTAL 185599
866 LOYAL 185506
867 COMIC 185478
868 DUTCH 185351
869 DEADLY 185335
870 INTENSIVE 185295
871 WORLDWIDE 184694
872 VOCAL 184182
873 REVOLUTIONARY 184171
874 COMPARABLE 184077
875 DESIGNATED 184019
876 ALTERNATE 183217
877 KOREAN 183068
878 AWARD-WINNING 183029
879 RESULTING 182469
880 FACIAL 181614
881 DISTINCTIVE 181270
882 HOMELESS 181132
883 LTD 181048
884 INSTITUTIONAL 180963
885 DESPERATE 180799
886 FINISHED 180481
887 EVIDENT 180358
888 WINNING 180212
889 LEGISLATIVE 179888
890 BASS 179630
891 NEAT 179325
892 MUNICIPAL 178279
893 INNOCENT 177888
894 THIRD-PARTY 177752
895 DELIGHTED 176889
896 DIAGNOSTIC 176873
897 EAGER 176564
898 HEALING 176466
899 MATCHING 175951
900 LAZY 175848
901 SATISFIED 175738
902 DELICATE 175488
903 SHORT-TERM 175421
904 NAKED 175039
905 MATURE 174798
906 COSTLY 174272
907 COMPELLING 174230
908 INFINITE 174172
909 TASTY 173897
910 INEXPENSIVE 173506
911 AUTOMOTIVE 173498
912 STATISTICAL 173072
913 REAL-TIME 172743
914 INTERMEDIATE 172714
915 INCOMING 172606
916 KNOWLEDGEABLE 172273
917 MEDIEVAL 172165
918 INTIMATE 171500
919 SHEER 171175
920 STRAIGHTFORWARD 170387
921 IN-DEPTH 170181
922 PROPRIETARY 170086
923 DISTANT 169855
924 CLOSEST 168214
925 BARE 168207
926 PROMISING 168124
927 VIABLE 167982
928 APPLIED 167826
929 PROTECTED 167631
930 VOLUNTARY 167017
931 SEXY 166740
932 SMALLEST 166043
933 PART-TIME 165745
934 WORRIED 165464
935 LIABLE 165452
936 PROFITABLE 165088
937 TO 165067
938 RELAXED 164798
939 ARCHITECTURAL 164501
940 PRONE 164418
941 CHARMING 163915
942 MAGNIFICENT 163899
943 CONFIDENTIAL 163699
944 RADICAL 163550
945 INTUITIVE 163361
946 RECREATIONAL 163359
947 ABSTRACT 163294
948 REVERSE 163249
949 ETHNIC 162877
950 MOVING 162786
951 INVISIBLE 162633
952 TRUSTED 162344
953 NUTRITIONAL 162315
954 DARKER 162274
955 RENEWABLE 162216
956 FANCY 162165
957 NON-PROFIT 161994
958 DESIRABLE 161906
959 INFLUENTIAL 161874
960 STRONGEST 161149
961 STEEP 160980
962 VARYING 160758
963 RESIDENT 160545
964 RACIAL 160294
965 FAITHFUL 160248
966 ENGAGING 160148
967 HEAVIER 159672
968 PERSONALIZED 159558
969 LEAN 159121
970 BIBLICAL 158974
971 NASTY 158793
972 LESSER 158628
973 INFORMATIVE 157989
974 ASLEEP 157856
975 STURDY 157793
976 STICKY 157544
977 CHOSEN 156938
978 EXOTIC 156198
979 SIMPLER 155551
980 CLOSING 155501
981 THERAPEUTIC 155498
982 FATAL 155138
983 DENSE 155106
984 UNWANTED 154920
985 PRESTIGIOUS 154918
986 AESTHETIC 154801
987 FORTUNATE 154560
988 SHALLOW 154487
989 DIETARY 154454
990 TACTICAL 154343
991 NEAREST 154322
992 ALERT 154035
993 INEVITABLE 153994
994 GEOGRAPHIC 153896
995 MONETARY 153714
996 MOLECULAR 153451
997 VIRAL 153409
998 MODEST 153027
999 LUXURIOUS 152919
1000 INSPIRING 152535
TOTAL 775684138
From teaching experience, “famous” is a frequently misused word, which is hard to spot as a mistake in writing because we don’t know what the writer is always referring to. Students tend to confuse its meaning with “popular” which has quite a different meaning. That is, everyone knows it (famous) or everyone likes it (popular).