became – English Grammar Profiler

B1, object, PRONOUNS, subject / a few, allow, another, appear, became, believed, both, contain, could, DB2, few, include, involve, managed, mentioned, might, must, offer, provide, remain, require, seem, seemed, serve, share, should, stand, TLC, tried, try

Point 61 in the category of PRONOUNS/quantity is defined as: ‘BOTH’, ‘A FEW’, ‘ANOTHER’ as subject and object pronouns. *We have covered the use of ‘another’ here. A search in iWeb corpus for: . both _V 1 . BOTH ARE 48684 2 . BOTH HAVE 15241 3 . BOTH WERE 15188 4 . BOTH WILL …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, comparatives / and, became, become, becomes, becoming, busier, clearer, climbing, get, grew, grow, growing, grows, healthier, heavier, higher, JJR, larger, louder, lower, sicker, stronger, thinner, wider, worse

Point 47 in Adjectives is defined as: ‘and’ to repeat a comparative adjective to indicate change over time, usually after ‘become’ or ‘get’ _V _JJR and _JJR 1 GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER 1563 2 GETTING WORSE AND WORSE 1555 3 GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER 897 4 GET BIGGER AND BIGGER 867 5 GOT WORSE AND …

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A1, A2, PAST, VERBS / added, arrived, became, broke, brought, built, called, decided, earned, ended, explained, failed, fell, followed, grew, happened, held, hit, included, information, joined, kept, lost, meant, moved, offered, passed, PELIC, posted, received, served, set, spent, tried, turned, VVD, won

Here’s an example of past simple with academic collocation: I added some information now. (listen to this sentence) A2 point 5 in the category of PAST/ simple: affirmative form with an increasing range of verbs A1 point 1 is defined: past simple affirmative form with a limited range of regular and irregular verbs. A search in iWeb for _VVD …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, B1, B2, CLAUSES, FOCUS, GSE, hedging, likelihood, MODALITY, possibility / apparent, became, certain, evident, impossible, improbable, JJ, likely, obvious, PELIC, possible, probable, sure, that, uncertain, unlikely, was

Here’s a student example of an adjective followed by a ‘that’ clause. However, I am sure that the most useful English for you is American English. PELIC Korean male level 4 writing In the English Grammar Profile (EGP), there are many points that are hard to differentiate and some have conflicting information. EGP point 22 MODALITY/adjectives at A2: BE’ + ‘SURE‘ + CLAUSE …

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