B2, gerund, infinitive, MODALITY, NEGATIVE, pattern, VERBS / accept, bear, burden, can, could, false, listening, losing, not, seeing, sight, unpleasant, VM, VVG, VVI, weight, witness, XX In the English Vocabulary Profile at B2, ‘bear’ is defined: accept someone or something unpleasant For example: I can’t bear to see him like this. listen *There are other uses of ‘bear’ that are more […]
B1, CLAUSES, GSE, mental, PRESENT, range, simple, VERBS / agree, believe, correctly, fact, far, hear, heard, however, if, importance, kid, mean, PELIC, personally, remember, sure, that, TLC, understand, while In the English Grammar Profile at B1, point 28 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: an increasing range of mental process verbs, including ‘remember’, ‘understand’, […]
A2, affirmative, auxiliary, CLAUSES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, simple, VERBS / BE, correct, did, do, enough, fair, have, interested, kidding, perfect, planning, serious, sure, true, trying, VB, VD, VH, VVG, XX, you Here is another group of A2 English Grammar Profile points that overlap multiple categories. Many of these could be all merged into one […]
B1, CLAUSES, GSE, mental, PRESENT, range, simple, VERBS / agree, believe, correctly, fact, far, hear, heard, however, if, importance, kid, mean, PELIC, personally, remember, sure, that, TLC, understand, while In the English Grammar Profile at B1, point 28 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: an increasing range of mental process verbs, including ‘remember’, ‘understand’, […]
B1, CLAUSES, GSE, mental, PRESENT, range, simple, VERBS / agree, believe, correctly, fact, far, hear, heard, however, if, importance, kid, mean, PELIC, personally, remember, sure, that, TLC, understand, while In the English Grammar Profile at B1, point 28 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: an increasing range of mental process verbs, including ‘remember’, ‘understand’, […]
A2, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, degree, gradable / amazing, awesome, busy, called, clear, comfortable, cool, full, glad, high, interested, JJ, large, low, lucky, PELIC, pleased, popular, pretty, quite, really, RG, simple, so, SPECIAL, strong, sure, true, useful Point 32 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying: adverbs of degree (‘really’, ‘so’, ‘quite’) with an increasing range of common gradable […]
C1, DETERMINERS, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS, quantity / boys, categories, circumstances, conditions, DD, DD2, either, events, issues, items, locations, major, men, methods, neither, NN2, of, options, products, situations, these, things, those ‘Either’ can mean “the one or the other.” ‘Neither’ can mean “not the one and not the other” or “not either.” C1 English Grammar Profile point […]
ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, infinitive / announce, apply, assume, completely, consider, create, determine, eligible, ensure, extremely, fairly, important, impossible, incredibly, JJ, note, pleasantly, recognize, remember, RR, to, V, VVI, willing This structure is at least B1 since it will often catch modality with hedging and emphasis. It either will show the ability to place adverbs in […]
NOUNS, phrases / a, about, almost, AP, believe, did, do, for, give, hear, his, in, it, keep, kept, loss, lost, my, NN, not, other, president, same, say, take, the, understand, utter, VH, VV, with, word, words, XX, _AT In the English Vocabulary Profile at B1: not believe/understand/hear/say, etc. a word = anything A search in […]
B1, continuous, FUTURE, NEGATIVE / accepting, adding, appearing, attending, BE, bringing, commenting, competing, covering, expecting, fighting, happening, holding, joining, losing, missing, moving, not, offering, operating, ordering, participating, performing, posting, providing, purchasing, receiving, releasing, renewing, replacing, returning, seeking, selling, spending, trying, VM, VVG, wasting, will, winning, XX In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 32 in […]
C1, demonstrative, formal, possessive, professional, PRONOUNS / DD, IO, of, that, those, unfamiliar Point 103 in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined as: ‘THAT OF’, ‘THOSE OF’ as a possessive form, in formal and professional contexts. A search in iWeb for: that|those of * * * 1 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE 15147 2 THOSE […]
ADVERBS, B1, emphasis, expectation, perfect, PRESENT, simple, time / achieved, added, adopted, already, announced, applied, attracted, booked, built, caused, committed, completed, covered, created, decided, developed, discovered, discussed, earned, entered, established, experienced, expressed, happened, has, have, implemented, installed, invested, led, lost, mentioned, moved, noted, occurred, passed, pointed, posted, proved, provided, purchased, raised, reached, received, recommended, registered, […]
A2, ADJECTIVES, demonstrative, PRONOUNS, response token / amazing, another, awesome, cool, crazy, fair, JJ, just, news, point, so, story, sure, that, true, VBZ Point 38 in PRONOUNS/demonstratives is defined: RESPONSE TOKENS WITH ‘that’s’ + adjective to respond to something However, the EGP examples do not always contain an adjective: That’s great! That’s a pity! That’s a good idea! […]
A2, affirmative, base, CLAUSES, imperatives, NEGATIVE, VERBS / add, bear, believe, boil, bring, call, click, contact, do, follow, forget, free, full, help, hope, however, if, include, keep, let, list, me, mind, most, out, PELIC, prepare, set, sharing, so, star, sure, take, thank, try, us, VD, video, view, VV0, VVI, XX Here are two A2 English […]
