_P – English Grammar Profiler

B1, fixed expressions, MODALITY, polite, QUESTIONS, request / creating, giving, letting, mind, providing, sharing, shooting, talking, telling, terribly, updating, VM, would, you, _P

Here are the most common examples with explanations of ‘would you mind‘: Would you mind if I took your picture? *notice the past form ‘took’ to be polite. Listen to the pronunciation   In the English Grammar Profile, point 83 at B1 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘would’ to make polite requests, often in the fixed expression ‘would you …

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NOUNS, phrases, predicate, subject / bonus, cause, concern, disaster, exception, factor, genius, idiot, inspiration, lifestyle, miracle, myth, necessity, NN, no, norm, priority, process, revelation, VB, wonder, _A, _P

It is easy to find noun phrases functioning as a subject-predicate in a clause.  For example, “I was a kid.” ‘a kid’ is a noun phrase after the copular verb ‘was.’ An iWeb search for: _P _VB _A _NN . 1 I WAS A KID . 7523 2 I WAS A CHILD . 2942 3 …

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A1, direct, NOUNS, object, phrases, PRONOUNS / get, idea, NN, picture, the, VV, _A, _P

In the English Grammar Profile, A1 point 2 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: noun phrases as objects of the clause. Most of the following ranked results contain: A pronoun as the noun phrase subject + a lexical verb + a direct object noun phrase. A search in iWeb corpus for: _P _VV _A …

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A2, B1, MODALITY, necessity, NOUNS, obligation, PRONOUNS, range / account, application, applications, candidate, candidates, care, companies, company, court, customer, customers, documents, employee, employees, employer, employers, entries, file, form, forms, guests, I, individual, information, items, leaders, manager, managers, materials, member, members, must, NN, notice, order, orders, organization, organizations, owner, owners, patient, patients, PELIC, plan, product, products, program, programs, property, request, requests, service, services, staff, study, system, systems, team, teams, user, users, value, vehicle, VM, you, _P

Student examples: So I must study English very hard. PELIC Korean male level 2 writing class. You must do the homework each day without delay. Arabic, female, level 4 writing class   I think that teenagers must study. TLC speaking test, female Spain B1 B1 point 88 in the category of MODALITY: ‘must’ (with a wide range of pronouns and nouns) to talk about obligation and necessity A2 …

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