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The 'Featured Vocabulary, Grammar Focus, & Language Note(s)' Box: An Introduction

Featured Vocabulary
For Sample Purpose only

Key:
 Sustainable ESL Lexicon
 Basic ESL
 Academic Word List
 Other
environmental (ADJ)  
greed (N-UNCOUNT)
greenhouse effect (N-VAR)
prosperity (N-UNCOUNT)

right (N-COUNT), rights (pl-n)

rights (N-PLURAL)
 

sustain (VERB-T)

(sustains, sustaining, sustained)
sustainability (N-UNCOUNT) (oft the N of n)
sustainable (ADJ)
sustainably (ADV)
Grammar Focus: --
Language Note(s): --

Each article includes a Featured Vocabulary, Grammar Focus, and Language Note(s) Box.

Featured Vocabulary:

  • listed in alphabetical order
  • Sustainable ESL Lexicon: these words will be listed in the Sustainable ESL Lexicon (which we may publish one day)
  • Basic ESL: these words are identified as important and/or frequently-occurring English words in well-regarded ESL Learner dictionaries (e.g., Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's Oxford 3000™ list, Macmillan Dictionary's "red words" marked with *, **, or ***)
  • Academic Word List: these words are listed on the Academic Word List (for more information, visit here)
  • Other: all other featured vocabulary
  • The word class of each target word is provided. [See below for details.]
  • If relevant, information about word pattern is provided. [See below for details.]

Grammar Focus: specific grammar issue or issues.

Language Note(s) [if necessary]: an explanation about some specific aspect of a target word.  For instance, a word may be figurative or informal, or considered offensive or old-fashioned.

Word Class

Information about a target word's word class (e.g., noun, verb, adjective, adverb, quantifier, ...) is provided.

Nouns that are countable (i.e., N-COUNT) are listed in their singular form, followed by their plural form (i.e., pl-n).

Verbs are listed in their base form, followed by the second person singular, present participle and past participle forms.

Gerunds [also known as verbal nouns] are identified as uncountable nouns (i.e., N-UNCOUNT).

Word Patterns

Sometimes some additional information is provided about word patterns: E.g., sustainability (N-UNCOUNT) (oft the N of n) For instance, "the sustainability of wind energy ..."

pl: plural | Example: pl-n = noun in the plural
sing: singular | Example: sing-n = noun in the singular
supp: supplementary information accompanying a noun
usu: usually | Example: N-COUNT usu sing

noun
(N)
   
  singular noun
(N-SING)
 
    collective singular noun
(N-SING-COLL)
  plural noun
(N-PLURAL)
 
  countable noun
(N-COUNT)
 
    collective count noun
(N-COUNT-COLL)
  uncountable noun
(N-UNCOUNT)
 
    collective uncount noun
(N-UNCOUNT-COLL)
  variable noun
(N-VAR)
 
    collective variable noun
(N-VAR-COLL)
pronoun
(PRON)
   
adjective
(ADJ)
   
verb
(VERB)
   
  intransitive verb
(VERB-I)
 
  transitive verb
(VERB-T)
 
  ditransitive verb
(VERB-D)
 
phrasal verb
(PHR V)
   
adverb
(ADV)
   
preposition
(PREP)
   
interjection
(INTERJ)
   
prefix
(PREFIX)
   
determiner
(DET)
   
quantifier
(QUANT)
   
  plural quantifier
(QUANT-PLURAL)