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Depending on what you want to find and where _J or _JJ will also include all the other more specific tags.
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 86 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: phrases or exclamations where the negative interrogative form of an auxiliary verb is used to express surprise or enthusiasm. This is a real challenge to search for. Surprise and enthusiasm are not something you can formally search for, but […]
surprise enthusiasm or negative exclamation Read More »
Upper-Intermediate students can post modify ADJECTIVEs with to-infinitive
adjective + ENOUGH + TO-infinitive Read More »
Some time adjectives to learn before a noun for intermediate students.
attributive only time adjectives Read More »
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 61 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as: adjective phrases with ‘rather a’ + adjective, often in formal contexts A search in iWeb for rather a _JJ 1 RATHER A LONG 392 Further collocates 4 to the left and right: 1 TIME (NNT1 ) 187 2 WAY
rather a + adjective Read More »
Long-term and short-term memory might be a good topic to teach with compound adjectives.
Most frequent hyphenated compound adjectives Read More »
What are examples of adjective phrases modifying nouns?
adjectives pre- and post- modifying noun phrases Read More »
Which adjectives should I teach my intermediate class?
real | absolute | complete + NOUN (degrees of intensity) Read More »
Where to start teaching noun phrases to your beginner to pre-intermediate class?
article + adverb + adjective + noun Read More »
B1 MODALITY: It’s hard for me to imagine.
adjective + FOR + object + TO-infinitive Read More »
Modifying an adjective for hedging with a degree adverb involves using an adverb to soften or weaken the strength or certainty of an adjective. This technique is often used in communication to express caution, uncertainty, or to avoid making absolute statements. By adding a degree adverb, we can create a more nuanced or less definitive
degree adverbs modifying adjectives ‘almost certain’ Read More »
Collocations of HAVE TO in the COCA corpus (9 tokens left and right): 1 WORRY (VVI ) 4009 2 CAREFUL (JJ ) 2155 3 ADMIT (VVI ) 1572 4 VIGILANT (JJ ) 176 5 RELEARN (VVI ) 33 One can guess there is a generally negative tone to this grammar structure from the above verbs
have (got) to INFINITVE Read More »
For this C2 grammar, ‘major’ is an adjective meaning: important, serious, or significant. ‘Very’ is an adjective meaning: actual or precise, with emphasis on the exact quality of the following noun or an extreme point in time/space. Point 73 under the category of adjectives in C2 on the English Grammar Profile these two vocabulary items
‘major cities’, ‘very beginning’ (major | very + noun) Read More »
One must wonder what the precise choice of collocating nouns is for this C2 point on the English Grammar Profile: 77 ADJECTIVES superlatives C2 USE: ‘the slightest’, ‘the faintest’ with a specific range of nouns to express the least amount possible, most frequently following a negative verb form The word “slightest” already means the least
the + slightest | faintest + noun Read More »
Let’s look at some examples of the indefinite pronoun ‘something’ + adjective phrase. This relates to “post positioned adjectives” ‘something’ is an indefinite pronoun. ‘special’ is an adjective. The adjective post-modifies the pronoun. The adjective makes the pronoun more specific. Well, how about something special for lunch tomorrow to cheer you up? I‘ll make something special for you. (Watch example sentences) The meaning of ‘something adjective‘
ANYTHING | SOMETHING + adjective Read More »
Here are two examples of an A2 adjective followed by an A2 noun: If you need any further information, it‘s available online. listen They have hundreds of jobs in a wide variety of qualifications. listen _JJ or supposedly an adjective + _NN a noun on iWeb gives us a picture that requires interpretation of manual data. On the left is how text inspector divides the vocabulary level.
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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
adjective range in noun phrases Read More »
