August 2020 – English Grammar Pro

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You should get yourself checked by your doctor. This is an example of the B2 grammar point. point 18 in PASSIVES is defined as: reflexive pronoun with the ‘get’-passive [get] _ppx _vvn 1 GET YOURSELF CHECKED 313 The Indian Express Don’t miss your dental check-ups, here’s why If you get yourself checked at a […]

This is a personal note for the direction in future. All the research posts should use the tagging taxonomy to choose a number of nouns that are best to use alongside the grammar. It is already clear, where possible I choose, for example, B1 vocabulary to go with B2 grammar for being able to understand […]

Point 17 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PAST PERFECT passive SIMPLE negative form. A search on iWeb corpus for had _xx been _vvn The most common in ranking order are: SEEN, MADE, GIVEN, USED, PAID, TOLD, and TAKEN. Ranked 9 is ‘HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED’ 台北時報 KMT slams DPP’s pork import […]

Point 16 in PASSIVES is defined as: PAST CONTINUOUS AFFIRMATIVE. _vbd being _vvn B1 Vocabulary found in the first 50 most common Ngrams includes: attacked, considered, developed, filmed and interviewed. USED, HELD, MADE, TAKEN are the most common past participle verbs. 5 WAS BEING TREATED 2919 Aljazeera.com ‘Stay strong, Lebanon’: Global support after Beirut […]

In this grammar research post, we have collected all the B1 verbs that go after necessary.

A search on iWeb corpus for a much better _nn offers in the top 50 most frequent these B1 nouns following: approach, bet, chance, choice, design, experience, method, mood, option, performance, position, product, quality, result, sense, situation, solution, system, user, value 1 A MUCH BETTER JOB 4957 2 A MUCH BETTER CHANCE 4140 The […]

Point 109 in PRONOUNS and reciprocal is defined as: ‘each’ (+ noun or pronoun) as subject followed by ‘the other(s)’ as an object, to refer to two related things. (quantity) Most of the examples in iWeb corpus seem related to law. A looser search each * * * the other* * 1 EACH OTHER . […]

Point 37 in the category of PRESENT continuous (C2) is defined as: a wide range of adverbs of indefinite frequency, often to talk about surprising or undesirable situations or events. There are only two examples given in the EGP: ‘persistently’ and ‘permanently’. Both of those do not exist in the top 1000 clusters. Point 32 […]

Point 11 in the category of FOCUS is defined as: ‘Not a’ + noun with a passive verb or inverted auxiliary and subject for focus. This is very rare! _xx _at1 _n _vb _vvn 1 NOT A LOT IS KNOWN 193 WION Radical Chinese Christian cult active in Northeast India: Reports Not a lot […]

Point 65 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: ‘many a’ or ‘many an’ + singular noun for emphasis and focus. *We noticed that this phrase often gets used at the start of sentences. A search on iWeb corpus for many _at1 _nn: 1 MANY A TIME 3162 India Times Indian […]