Almost 70% of the preceding word forms are nouns or determiners and mostly singular. They are rarely adjectives. The main exception is ‘full of’. For example: part of number of lot of end of amount of the use of a kind of
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In the top 100 of DA2 + *s there are a few plural time nouns but most are plural nouns. The only exception is ‘many as’ This is the count: (nn2): 73 many: 53 few: 31 (nnt2): 22 several: 16 years: 3 days: 3 times: 3 months: 3 ways: 3 hours: 3 things: 3 others:
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MATERIALS (NN2) GOALS (NN2) INDIVIDUALS (NN2) ANIMALS (NN2) PROFESSIONALS (NN2) OFFICIALS (NN2) MEALS (NN2) HOSPITALS (NN2) CHEMICALS (NN2) TRIALS (NN2) REVEALS (VVZ) DEALS (NN2) SIGNALS (NN2) PROPOSALS (NN2) MINERALS (NN2) LOCALS (NN2) FINALS (NN2) METALS (NN2) CREDENTIALS (NN2) TUTORIALS (NN2) FESTIVALS (NN2) INTERVALS (NN2) APPEALS (NN2) DEALS (VVZ_NN2) ESSENTIALS (NN2) JOURNALS (NN2) CRIMINALS (NN2) DEALS
Here are some examples of plural possessives with an apostrophe s’:
Children’s books: These books belong to the children.
Women’s rights: These rights belong to women.
Men’s clothing: This clothing belongs to men.
Teachers’ pets: These pets belong to the teachers.
Students’ essays: These essays belong to the students.
When a plural noun ends in s, we make the possessive form by adding an apostrophe only. For example:
The cats’ toys: These toys belong to the cats.
The dogs’ beds: These beds belong to the dogs.
The horses’ saddles: These saddles belong to the horses.
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Here are my top 10 vocabulary items I would teach alongside “very few” to an upper-intermediate class.
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