B2, gerund, pattern, VERBS / blogging, challenging, creating, experience, exploring, gain, imagine, inform, involving, P, regarding, searching, setting, solve, support, VV, VVG, waste, wasting, wondering Point 52 in VERBS/patterns is defined as: introducing a new subject before the ‘-ing’ form (using noun or object pronoun) _VV _P _V*G *Notice that the ‘get/keep somebody doing somthing’ […]
B1, infinitive, MODALITY / accept, act, adapt, add, adjust, admit, agree, assume, battle, beat, become, bite, break, bring, build, call, cancel, charge, check, compete, compromise, consider, continue, convince, cover, create, cut, deal, decide, defend, deliver, develop, dig, disagree, drop, earn, endure, expect, experiment, explain, fight, figure, fill, fix, focus, follow, force, grow, happen, hate, have, […]
B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, […]
A1, infinitive, pattern, VERBS / do, I, like, not, PELIC, to, use, using, VVG, VVI, want Let’s look at the like and ‘want verb pattern’. They are different because ‘like’ can be followed by to-infinitve or Verb-ing. ‘want’ is only followed by the to-infinitive. For example: “I like using the internet” or “I like to […]
ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, complex, NOUNS, phrases / accepted, almost, amount, amounts, approach, available, basis, beneficial, binding, boiled, cash, chance, check, choice, closely, colleges, competitive, completely, continuously, contract, cost, daily, deal, difference, differences, disease, diseases, domain, double, drained, efforts, entirely, even, extra, extremely, field, fully, generally, ground, guy, high, higher, highly, historically, idea, increasingly, infection, infections, […]
B1, ellipsis, MODALITY, subject / admit, apply, attend, bring, call, check, complete, contain, credit, demonstrate, enter, hold, include, keep, maintain, mention, must, obtain, pass, possess, provide, purchase, qualify, register, sign, submit, try, VVI B1 Point 116 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ellipted ‘must’ without a subject *Note the general B2 subject pronoun ellipsis […]
B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, […]
A2, CLAUSES, non-finite, purpose, subordinate / ABLE, add, another, around, clear, even, fair, few, find out, goal, idea, if, keep, learn, matters, most, PELIC, return, sign, so, sure, to, top, VVI, worse Point 32 in the category of CLAUSES: non-finite subordinate clause with ‘to’, to introduce purpose PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: To learn English, just follow these steps. Arabic male level 3 […]
ADVERBS, C1, habitual, MODALITY, typical / behaves, cause, function, leave, normally, occur, often, usually, VVI, will Here’s an example of using ‘will’ to talk about habits and characteristic (typical) behaviour: The suspect will often leave something behind. listen C1 point 189 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘will’ to talk about something HABITUAL AND TYPICAL The English Grammar Profile examples contain: […]
C2, CLAUSES, cleft, FOCUS, subject / differ, how, P, react, respond, treat, V, where, why C2 point 14 in the category of FOCUS is defined as: ‘How’, ‘Why’, or ‘Where’ cleft clauses as subject, for focus. *Note, HOW + CLAUSE is also C2 as an exclamation. A search on iWeb for: . How|Why|Where _P _V […]
B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, […]
A2, ability, affirmative, B1, MODALITY, range, suggestion, VERBS / add, allow, apply, argue, become, benefit, bring, build, call, care, consider, continue, cost, could, create, cut, explain, fall, fit, handle, happen, hold, imagine, improve, include, increase, keep, lead, lose, mean, move, offer, pick, produce, prove, provide, pull, reach, receive, reduce, result, save, sell, serve, set, share, […]
belief, C1, GSE, opinion, PASSIVES, PRONOUNS, subject / assist, believed, bound, calculate, cause, considered, consult, consume, CST, determine, enable, expected, generate, identify, indicate, it, PELIC, purchase, reported, thought, to, treat, VB, VVI, VVN, was Let’s take a look at an IELTS writing task 2 example with this grammar: It is argued that volunteering should be made a part of the school […]
B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, […]
