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determiner + noun phrase (increasing range)

A2, DETERMINERS, modify, NOUNS, phrases, range, uncountable / a, activities, alcohol, all, areas, blood, cases, cash, companies, competition, costs, customers, detail, details, difference, differences, fans, files, food, guys, history, ideas, information, levels, lot, many, memories, mistakes, more, much, music, NN, of, oil, pain, PELIC, pieces, points, practice, reasons, so, some, songs, space, staff, stories, teams, the, TLC, too, traffic, ways, weather, _A

Here’s a student example of a determiner + uncountable noun: My teacher told me “enjoy the music and you will dance naturally.” PELIC Taiwanese female level 3 writing class A2 point 18 in the category of NOUNS is defined: form simple noun phrases by pre-modifying nouns with an increasing range of determiners. A2 point 24 in the category of NOUNS: form …

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A LOT | MUCH (subject pronouns)

C2, FOCUS, PRONOUNS, quantity, subject / a, depends, lot, much, on, so, that, too

C2 point 110 in PRONOUNS/quantity: ‘A LOT’ AND ‘MUCH’ as a subject pronouns. focus . A lot _V 1 . A LOT HAS 2043 2 . A LOT DEPENDS 935 A lot depends on how you answer. listen 3 . A LOT CAN 852 4 . A LOT IS 572 5 . A LOT WILL 401 6 . A LOT …

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quantity phrase + uncountable noun

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, phrases, quantity, range, uncountable / a, action, advice, air, analysis, assistance, attention, background, bit, cash, damage, data, detail, development, difference, discussion, education, effort, energy, enough, evidence, experience, far, further, history, information, knowledge, laundry, little, loads, luck, much, notice, of, oil, opportunity, patience, PELIC, planning, plenty, power, practice, pressure, protein, research, sense, space, storage, stuff, testing, too, trouble, weight

The English Grammar Profile claims that there are over 1000 grammar points in its inventory. However, there are numerous points that are overlapping. This post shows 3 posts that overlap. B1 Point 34 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: uncountable nouns with an increasing range of determiners/quantity words and phrases including ‘much’, ‘a …

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too | so + much + NOUN

B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, uncountable / air, alcohol, attention, beauty, blood, choice, competition, control, credit, damage, detail, difficulty, effort, energy, excitement, fuel, heat, history, hope, information, interest, knowledge, liquid, material, much, NN1, oil, pain, PELIC, power, respect, sense, so, space, stress, stuff, success, support, talent, TLC, too, trouble, value, variety, weight

Point 51 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘SO MUCH’, ‘TOO MUCH’ WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS too|so much _NN1 1 SO MUCH FUN 51051 2 SO MUCH MONEY 13915 3 TOO MUCH MONEY 12901 4 TOO MUCH TROUBLE 10270 5 TOO MUCH WORK 9680 6 TOO MUCH PRESSURE 8394 7 TOO MUCH INFORMATION 8108 …

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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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too | very | so + many | few

C1, intensity, modify, PRONOUNS, quantity / affects, aware, capable, capture, few, granted, impact, inspiration, joy, little, many, simply, so, struggling, too, very

C1 point 102 in PRONOUNS/quantity is defined: MODIFIED: ‘few’ and ‘many’ with ‘very’, ‘too’, ‘so’ as intensifiers *’very few’ + noun is B2 A search in iWeb for: * * too|very|so many|few . 1 THERE ARE SO MANY . 587 2 IS ONE TOO MANY . 340 3 LIVES OF SO MANY . 236 4 …

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(too) adjective + prepositional phrase

A2, ADJECTIVES, modify, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range / accident, around, available, blood, call, corner, dead, download, fact, fit, free, front, full, further, heavy, high, idea, II, JJ, largest, low, luck, market, middle, N, open, pleased, public, rich, sale, size, strong, the, TLC, to, too, true, variety, way, web, yourself

There is overlap between these two A2 English Grammar Profile points: Point 6 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined: ‘too’ + adjective + prepositional phrase Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples for range are: …

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10 ways ‘FAR’ is used in English grammar.

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, CLAUSES, phrases, vocabulary / and, as, away, better, by, concerned, far, far-off, from, I, insofar, JJ, know, more, off, often, rather, RG, RL, RR, so, sooner, too

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 …

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determiner + noun (range)

A2, ADVERBS, DETERMINERS, modify, NOUNS, plural, range / DA2, many, NN, RG, so, too

This A2 grammar point is quantities of PLURAL NOUNS. Its made up of an adverb + determiner + noun.