A1 point 3 in ADVERBS is defined: a limited range of adverbs (‘here’, ‘there’) to indicate place. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I like to go there to eat food. Chinese female level 3 writing class. An iWeb search for: *many of the following results are not appropriate to this grammar point or A1 level. * * _VV _RL . 1 CAN BE …
Point 48 in ADVERBS/as modifiers is defined as: an increasing range of adverbs and adverb phrases (‘near’, ‘far away’, ‘upstairs’, ‘downstairs’) to indicate place An iWeb search for: _VV far away 1 STAY FAR AWAY 1252 2 LIVE FAR AWAY 1205 3 SEEMS FAR AWAY 249 4 LIVES FAR AWAY 245 5 SEEM FAR AWAY …
What part of speech is the word ‘near’? 1 NEAR (II) 1173513 4 NEAR (RL) 87096 12 NEAR (VVI) 18064 17 NEAR (JJ) 8170 21 NEAR (RR) 5765
A2 point 34 in the category of PRONOUNS: ‘something’ in vague expressions, to refer to things in a non-specific way. B2 point 69 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: indefinite pronouns in vague expressions to refer to things in a non-specific way. *The B2 examples given in the EGP are: or_CC anything_PN1 or_CC …
1 BELOW (RL) 2387501 2 BELOW (II) 514246 4 BELOW (RG) 167341
1 BETWEEN (II) 7565186 2 BETWEEN (RL22) 121148 8 BETWEEN (II22) 11854 12 BETWEEN (RL%) 5046 15 BETWEEN (JJ22) 2280
2 PAST (JJ) 606963 3 PAST (NN1) 490293 5 PAST (II) 309069 9 PAST (RL) 55074 17 PAST (RT) 16486
Here are 10 ways ‘far’ is used ranked by order of frequency: 1. A2 general adverb *Numbers on the right are the frequency in iWeb corpus: (RR) 1578722 ‘far‘ means ‘at, to or from a great distance in space or time‘ For example: Is it far away? I don’t live far from here. Thailand is not far from Vietnam. 2. B1 phrase ‘so far‘ means ‘until now‘ So far …
1 AWAY (RL) 3176947 3 AWAY (II21) 411361 5 AWAY (RR22) 51010 7 AWAY (JJ) 17013 9 AWAY (RP) 3475 10 AWAY (RR44) 1674
1 INSIDE (II) ‘Inside’ is a preposition before a noun phrase. 2 (RL) ‘Inside’ is a locative adverb before a conjunction, punctuation, a verb or there_EX. 1 BOTH (RR) INSIDE (RL) AND (CC) OUTSIDE (II) 5565 2 , (,) INSIDE (RL) AND (CC) OUT (RP) 3946 3 . (.) INSIDE (RL) , (,) THE (AT) …
The word ‘across’ is most often a preposition. It can also be a locative adverb or adverb particle. Tagging doesn’t always get it right. For example: Police think the single shot came from across the street. listen 1 (II) As a preposition, ‘across’ precedes a noun phrase. Obviously the next word will most often be an article. 1 FROM (II) ACROSS (II_RL@) THE …
A search for: _N _RL 1 RIGHT (NN1_RR) AWAY (RL) 65079 2 MILES (NNU2) AWAY (RL) 62505 3 COMMENTS (NN2) BELOW (RL) 51896 4 VIDEO (NN1) BELOW (RL) 43933 5 PEOPLE (NN) HERE (RL) 40996 6 WAY (NN1) HOME (RL_NN1) 38231 7 LINK (NN1) BELOW (RL) 37030 8 TIME (NNT1) TOGETHER (RL) 35626 9 FUNERAL …
1 LEFT (VVN) 825113 2 LEFT (JJ) 812850 3 LEFT (VVD) 655523 11 LEFT (RL) 75837 15 LEFT (NN1) 38688
1 ABOVE (RL) 1594916 2 ABOVE (II) 1000328 3 ABOVE (JJ@) 434599 16 ABOVE (NN1) 573
1 ABOUT (II) 22037137 2 ABOUT (RG) 3728749 4 ABOUT (RPK) 438095 9 ABOUT (RP) 121562 19 ABOUT (RL) 442
Let’s look at what intermediate students can do with indefinite pronouns and adjectives. Point 44 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: adjective or adjective phrase after pronouns like ‘something’, ‘nothing’, ‘somewhere’, ‘nowhere’ Point 29 in NOUNs is defined as: phrases with an indefinite pronoun + adjective or clause. We have crossed out ‘something’ because it has …
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