far - English Grammar Profiler

I remember | believe | understand | hear (that) + CLAUSE

B1, CLAUSES, GSE, mental, PRESENT, range, simple, VERBS / agree, believe, correctly, fact, far, hear, heard, however, if, importance, kid, mean, PELIC, personally, remember, sure, that, TLC, understand, while

In the English Grammar Profile at B1, point 28 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: an increasing range of mental process verbs, including ‘remember’, ‘understand’, ‘believe’ A similar addition to this point is Pearson’s GSE 62 B2 speak about information acquired from others using ‘hear’ + ‘(that +)’ complement clause. I hear that John and Susie are getting married. I’ve heard that Martin ‘s lost his job. …

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each other

B1, complements, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reciprocal, VERBS / ABLE, against, along, attracted, away, common, communicate, compete, competition, connect, connected, contact, distance, each, far, feelings, front, II, independent, look out, mirror, off, other, relation, respect, share, similar, so, TLC, top, touch, VV, war

Point 60 in the category of PRONOUNS/reciprocal is defined as: ‘each other’ as the object of a verb or complement of a preposition to talk about the mutual behaviour of two or more people. An iWeb search for: * * * each other 1 ON TOP OF EACH OTHER 13130 (note that many of these …

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too ADJECTIVE to INFINITIVE

ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, infinitive / afraid, busy, call, complete, fail, fall, far, fit, forget, heavy, hold, JJ, join, keep, large, lazy, list, lose, pass, save, to, too, try, turn, VVI

Point 68 in the category of CLAUSES/comparatives is defined as: ‘TOO’ + adjective + ‘to’-infinitive. A search in iWeb for: too _J to _VVI 1 TOO EARLY TO TELL 4736 2 TOO EARLY TO SAY 4112 3 TOO EARLY TO START 3206 4 TOO GOOD TO PASS 2967 5 TOO BIG TO FAIL 2827 6 …

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right?

B1, informal, QUESTIONS, tags / amazing, awesome, by, cool, crazy, dream, enough, far, mean, means, news, out, point, pretty, reason, right, simple, so, somewhere, sounds, true, while

Point 16 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: ‘RIGHT’ AS AN INFORMAL TAG in informal contexts. A search in iWeb for: * * , right ? 1 I KNOW , RIGHT ? 1260 2 MAKES SENSE , RIGHT ? 866 3 PRETTY COOL , RIGHT ? 735 National Law Review New Jersey …

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superlative + noun + postmodifier

ADJECTIVES, C1, modify, superlative / by, effective, ever, extent, far, JJT, manner, most, possible

Point 68 in the category of adjectives is defined as: postmodifier to make the superlative stronger, in the structure superlative + noun + postmodifier ‘possible’, ‘ever’, ‘by far’ For example: It’s one of the most influential artworks ever made. A search in iWeb for: the most _JJ _N possible|ever 1 THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE 1099 2 THE MOST EFFECTIVE …

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THIS (pronoun)

A2, PRONOUNS, singular / around, by, DD1, especially, exactly, far, if, just, mean, means, most, nothing, PELIC, probably, reason, story, this, true, turn, type, useful, way

Point 36 in PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘this’ as a pronoun with singular reference. If we look at what is to the right 4 spaces on iWeb corpus: this * * * * (but remember we are looking for a pronoun, not a determiner before a noun.) 1 THIS IS ONE OF THE 109499 2 …

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‘By far’ + superlative adjective

ADJECTIVES, article, B2, modify, superlative / by, common, effective, far, impressive, JJT, majority, most, popular, significant, the, widely

Point 62 in the category of adjectives in the English Grammar Profile.