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quantifying determiner + possessive determiner + OF + noun phrase

A2, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive, quantity / AP, colleagues, customers, D, few, files, guests, information, IO, members, most, NN, of, posts, several, staff

A2 Point 29 in DETERMINERS is defined: quantifying determiners + possessive determiners + ‘of’ + noun. (noun phrases) *There are other A2 determiner grammar points that are less specific, not requiring quantity or possession. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: In fact, some of my habits are changed by my mood. Arabic male level 3 writing class. An iWeb search for: _D of _AP _NN …

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subject + MUST

B1, MODALITY, necessity, NOUNS, obligation, PRONOUNS, range / account, application, applications, candidate, candidates, care, companies, company, court, customer, customers, documents, employee, employees, employer, employers, entries, file, form, forms, guests, I, individual, information, items, leaders, manager, managers, materials, member, members, must, NN, notice, order, orders, organization, organizations, owner, owners, patient, patients, PELIC, plan, product, products, program, programs, property, request, requests, service, services, staff, study, system, systems, team, teams, user, users, value, vehicle, VM, you, _P

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 …

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noun + OF + noun + ‘S + noun

B1, complex, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, possessive / actor, advocate, affairs, agents, agriculture, appeal, appeals, appearance, art, aspects, association, attention, author, award, awareness, bench, billions, block, campaign, cards, case, celebration, champion, choir, clubs, collection, college, commerce, costume, council, couple, court, department, diploma, director, directors, division, earth, education, election, employment, energy, episode, experience, fame, fees, GE, graduate, hall, health, history, institute, journal, judgment, justice, king, landing, literature, medicine, member, members, million, minds, NN, oak, of, office, PELIC, percent, pounds, proposal, quality, queen, rights, sciences, season, secretary, series, services, society, state, surface, survey, taxpayers, team, thrones, transition, veteran, veterans, wage, waste, workers, worth, WRITER

Point 42 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: complex noun phrases with noun phrase + ‘of’ + noun phrase + possessive determiner ‘s + noun phrase. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Our chairs are on the opposite side of the doctor’s chair, in front of the desk. Chinese female, Level 3 Writing Class. An iWeb search for: _NN of _NN _GE _NN 1 SECRETARY OF STATE …

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‘THE OTHER’ + noun

article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / advantage, approach, area, areas, benefit, case, challenge, characters, choice, companies, company, difference, form, guests, guy, guys, idea, ingredients, issue, item, items, kids, line, members, method, NN, of, option, options, other, PELIC, piece, point, possibility, products, reason, sections, set, side, solution, stuff, team, teams, the, type, types, way

B1 point 47 in DETERMINERS/articles is defined as: ‘THE OTHER’ with a singular noun to refer to the second or the opposite of two things, and with a plural noun to refer to one of a set of things. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: After a while, I thought that it was better to move to the other house. Korean, Female, Level 5, Writing Class TLC SPEAKING TEST …

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many + PLURAL NOUN ?

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity, QUESTIONS / areas, benefits, cases, channels, characters, choices, companies, competitors, copies, customers, deaths, details, employees, fans, files, fingers, forms, generations, guests, ideas, issues, items, kids, levels, locations, many, members, mistakes, NN2, occasions, options, passengers, pieces, points, possibilities, pounds, products, rules, secrets, sets, sites, steps, toys, units, users, ways

Point 45 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘MANY’ WITH PLURAL NOUNS, INTERROGATIVE An iWeb search for: many _NN2 ? 1 MANY OTHERS ? 293 2 MANY POSSIBILITIES ? 181 3 MANY THINGS ? 168 4 MANY QUESTIONS ? 167 5 MANY OPTIONS ? 126 6 MANY CHILDREN ? 122 7 MANY WAYS …

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several | a few of

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, plural, quantity / a, activities, advantages, areas, attempts, benefits, cases, comments, companies, details, dozen, favourites, few, generations, guys, hundred, ideas, inches, issues, items, locations, members, methods, miles, million, millions, NN, occasions, of, options, pieces, points, products, projects, reasons, seconds, several, songs, steps, thoughts, thousand, tips, TLC, topics, types, ways

Point 39 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: wide range of quantifying determiners with plural nouns (‘several’, ‘millions of’, ‘a few of’). *Note that if ‘millions of’ is used as hyperbole, then it is a C1 point. TLC, Speaking test examples: There are very few sports cars in Sri Lanka. We don’t really take those out on the roads. …

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