advise – English Grammar Profiler

B1, complements, indefinite, object, PRONOUNS, range / adds, advise, allow, allowing, allows, anyone, believe, blame, call, challenge, convince, costs, doubt, encourage, everywhere, expect, hurt, hurting, imagine, kill, let, mean, means, meant, nothing, PELIC, PN, prevent, received, recommend, surprise, TLC, trust, VV

Point 58 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: wide range of indefinite pronouns as objects or complements. A search in iWeb for: _VV nothing|anyone|everywhere 1 KNOW NOTHING 29235 2 THINK ANYONE 22892 3 SAY NOTHING 17229 4 KNOW ANYONE 16116 5 TELL ANYONE 15737 6 KNEW NOTHING 14617 7 LET ANYONE 14570 TLC …

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advice, B1, command, direct, GSE, infinitive, object, REPORTED SPEECH, request / add, advise, advised, appear, ask, asked, believe, call, complete, confirm, consider, contact, cover, enter, everyone, god, join, keep, like, provide, recommend, share, sign, tell, them, to, told, try, VVI, want, would, you

This post contains an example of overlapping B1 grammar points located inside two different categories in the English Grammar Profile (EGP). EGP B1 point 6 in the category of REPORTED SPEECH is defined as: REPORTED REQUESTS AND COMMANDS with ‘ask’ or ‘tell’ + direct object and ‘to-‘infinitive EGP B1 point 38 in the category of …

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B2, PRESENT, simple, speech act / accept, advise, agree, disagree

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 …

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