Point 7 in the category of ADJECTIVES: limited range of prepositional phrases with ‘of’ after a superlative adjective, to refer to one thing within a set or part of a set. TLC SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: What’s the best type of music? male Mexico B1 A search in iWeb for: _JJT _NN of * * 1 BEST INTERESTS …
Student examples: So I must study English very hard. PELIC Korean male level 2 writing class. I think that teenagers must study. TLC speaking test, female Spain B1 B1 point 88 in the category of MODALITY: ‘must’ (with a wide range of pronouns and nouns) to talk about obligation and necessity A2 point 49: ‘must’ with a limited range of pronouns (‘I’ and …
Here is another example of overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile. B1 Point 37 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined as: NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN Which overlaps the more specific B1 point 47 in the category of PRONOUNS: possessive pronoun ‘yours’ after noun + ‘of’. It would be very beneficial …
The English Grammar Profile claims there are over 1000 points in their database. This post is another example of why that it is not true. One of the greatest problems with listing points is finding which category to list them in without merely duplicating the same points. Both the following points are one point at …
