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Hole One a New See Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

'measure the English of somebody'

Hi everybody,

I would like to know the appropriate word in the case of the subject. I guess I could use the verb 'measure' to associate a number with quantity but I would like to 'measure' the level of English, its quality (e.g. intermediate, advanced, A1, A2, B1, etc.). What are the used verbs / phrasal verbs / prepositional verbs to deal with quality?

A word crossed my mind as I'm writing this comment. Maybe 'determine'. But I'm also curious about other possibilities.

Thanks for your answer(s) in advance.

My other questions (I'm still curious about the solutions):

1. http://www.EnglishForward.com/English/AtWeekendsWeekend/bgnbhj/post.htm

2. http://www.EnglishForward.com/English/CatchSomeoneOutOnSg/bgnvcq/post.htm
  

Top answer

"measure" is OK with words like "level", "standard", "quality", etc.. "determine" and "assess" would also work. "measure the English of someone" doesn't sound quite right.

— GPY

  • "measure" is OK with words like "level", "standard", "quality", etc..
  • "determine" and "assess" would also work.
  • "measure the English of someone" doesn't sound quite right.
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"measure" is OK with words like "level", "standard", "quality", etc.. "determine" and "assess" would also work.

"measure the English of someone" doesn't sound quite right.
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Thanks for the answer Emotion: smile

Sometimes I would appreciate if monolingual dictionaries were more detailed (for example they leave
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Hole One a New See Sometimes I would appreciate if monolingual dictionaries were more detailed (for example they leave out the 'quality' thing [it is in the etc. part but it should be written down explicitly]).
If they told us every possible way in which a word can be used, the entry for each word would be many pages long. My Oxford English Dictionary has 21,
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I just thought that the word 'quality' is rather general.

For example there is this definition from OALD:

to judge the importance, value or effect of something
I could imagine it as:

to judge the importance, value, effect or quality of something

After this modification it would be a little bit cl
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