Word of the week: from
The preposition from has quite a long entry in the English Vocabulary Profile. Four distinct meanings appear to be known at A1 level, and learners continue to broaden their knowledge of the word up to B2, as this entry shows. One additional phrase will be included at C1: from then/that day on, as in They were good friends from that day on. Clearly, learners would be able to understand this sentence at an earlier stage of their learning, but the fact that the phrase with from is rooted in past time makes it more complex to master and use effectively. This illustrates an important feature of vocabulary development at the C levels, where progress is as much about fine-tuning and extending knowledge and use of existing words as acquiring a wider repertoire of new words. The English Vocabulary Profile up to C2 level is likely to contain no more than 7000 headwords in total, of which around 4700 will have already been encountered up to B2 level. However, the C levels will include a large number of additional meanings, phrases, phrasal verbs and idioms.To view the full entry for from on the English Vocabulary Profile, please click here.
