am – English Grammar Profiler

B1, phrases / am, do, have, I, P, so, VB, VD, VH

In the English Vocabulary Profile at B1, so did we/so have I/so is mine, etc. used to say that someone else also does something or that the same thing is true about someone or something else   I‘m glad you‘re back. So am I, dear boy. listen   A search in iWeb for: so BE _P . 1 SO BE …

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C2, continuous, polite, PRESENT, request / am, are, asking, court, donations, government, I, public, purchase, VB, VVG, wanting, we

C2 English Grammar Profile point 38 in the category of PRESENT/continuous is defined as: POLITENESS: with verbs that are not usually used in this form to make statements and requests sound less direct. EXAMPLES: I am asking us to use our power to choose. I am asking us to level up. TED We are asking businesses not to produce and consumers not to go out and consume. TED An iWeb search for I|We am|are asking|wanting * …

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A2, affirmative, B1, FUTURE, intention, plan, prediction, QUESTIONS, range, VERBS / am, anything, are, become, continue, cost, do, going, happen, is, keep, PELIC, take, time, to, try, VB, VVI, win

Here are examples of ‘BE going to’ with A1 infinitives: It is going to take time. Listen Are you going to do anything about it? Listen This is a group of people who want to tell you your work is going to live. listen In the English Grammar Profile, in the category of FUTURE: B1 Point 31 is defined: ‘be going to’:  increasing range of verbs to make predictions. A2 point 4 is defined: future the affirmative and …

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B1, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PRESENT, simple / accepted, advised, allowed, am, approved, are, based, broken, built, called, charged, checked, completed, connected, considered, counted, covered, created, designed, displayed, expected, fixed, held, included, installed, intended, is, limited, located, lost, meant, mentioned, not, offered, permitted, prepared, protected, provided, received, recognized, recommended, registered, removed, required, satisfied, saved, selected, set, shared, sold, supported, tied, VB, VVN, XX

B1 Point 10 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE, NEGATIVE + range of pronoun and noun subjects *although ‘range of subjects’ is mentioned above, there is no entry for present simple negative elsewhere. There is no way to automatically check whether  these might actually be C1: ‘it’ with the passive voice …

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A1, A2, arrangements, auxiliary, B1, B2, continuous, FUTURE, NEGATIVE, PRESENT, range, temporary / always, am, are, dropping, is, launching, not, PELIC, preparing, releasing, typing, VB, VVG, what, XX

Here are some student writing examples of present continuous highlighted with details: I am typing English words right now. PELIC Chinese female level 2 writing class   However, we also can interpret from the graph that we aren’t preparing for it yet.  PELIC Korean female level 3 writing class   I am always falling over one of his toy cars or trucks. PELIC Arabic male level 3 writing class   There are at least 30 points to do with the present …

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A2, B1, B2, continuous, plan, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, range / am, are, coming, is, VVG

Present continuous is best given a CEFR level by lexical VERBing in the English Vocabulary Profile.  The English Grammar Profile has many levels that are mostly based on range.  There is also a point at C1 for rhetorical questions with present continuous. B2 point 45 in the category of  FUTURE with present continuous is defined …

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