Point 29 in the category of PRESENT is defined as: present simple with a wide range of speech act verbs, including ‘(dis)agree’, ‘accept’, ‘advise.’ A search on iWeb corpus for agree|disagree|accept|advise * * * * *does not really locate speech act theory since there are other uses of these verbs. In particular the most common […]
In the English Grammar Profile, Point 90 in the category of PAST continuous listed as C2, the adverbs ‘always’ or ‘constantly’ are used to talk about repeated events which are undesired or uncontrolled. Frustratingly, an example from point 70 in PAST category at B2 given by the EGP for adverb range pictured below clashes. Surely, […]
The position of the adjective when placed directly before a noun is referred to being in the attributive position. At lower levels, students already do this so here it becomes important to look at the range of adjectives used to create these noun phrases. One could just leave this to vocabulary if it were not […]
Point 12 in the category of PREPOSITIONs is defined as: preposition + relative pronoun as complement, to avoid preposition stranding, often in formal contexts. The EGP examples include: vacancy_NN1 in_II which_DDQ I_PPIS1 am_VBM very_RG interested_JJ ._. club_NN1 of_IO which_DDQ you_PPY are_VBR the_AT secretary_NN1 ._. someone_PN1 to_II whom_PNQO they_PPHS2 can_VM talk_VVI ._. A search […]
