benefit – English Grammar Profiler

A2, ability, affirmative, B1, MODALITY, range, suggestion, VERBS / add, allow, apply, argue, become, benefit, bring, build, call, care, consider, continue, cost, could, create, cut, explain, fall, fit, handle, happen, hold, imagine, improve, include, increase, keep, lead, lose, mean, move, offer, pick, produce, prove, provide, pull, reach, receive, reduce, result, save, sell, serve, set, share, spend, stand, try, turn, VM, VVI, win, work, XX

A2 point 52 in MODALITY: ‘could’ with a limited range of verbs to make suggestions. A2 point 27 in MODALITY: negative form B1 point 78 in MODALITY: affirmative form of ‘could’ to talk about ability. B1 point 79 in MODALITY: ‘could’ with an increasing range of verbs to make suggestions. An iWeb search for: could …

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A2, affirmative, FUTURE, MODALITY, possibility, PRESENT, weak / add, allow, appear, apply, become, benefit, bring, call, charge, collect, consider, contact, contain, continue, create, decide, develop, enter, exist, experience, explain, fall, happen, hold, include, increase, involve, lead, lose, may, mean, might, notice, offer, order, PELIC, prefer, prevent, produce, prove, provide, receive, recommend, reduce, remain, request, require, result, return, seem, serve, share, sound, suggest, try, turn, VM, VVI, wish

A2 points 34 and 48 in the category of MODALITY are defined as: ‘may‘ to talk about weak possibility referring to the present and the future affirmative A2 point 47: ‘might’ … weak possibility. An iWeb search for: may_VM _VVI 1 MAY NEED 294017 2 MAY WANT 253501 3 MAY TAKE 159078 4 MAY INCLUDE 156112 …

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article, B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS / advantage, approach, area, areas, benefit, case, challenge, characters, choice, companies, company, difference, form, guests, guy, guys, idea, ingredients, issue, item, items, kids, line, members, method, NN, of, option, options, other, PELIC, piece, point, possibility, products, reason, sections, set, side, solution, stuff, team, teams, the, type, types, way

B1 point 47 in DETERMINERS/articles is defined as: ‘THE OTHER’ with a singular noun to refer to the second or the opposite of two things, and with a plural noun to refer to one of a set of things. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: After a while, I thought that it was better to move to the other house. Korean, Female, Level 5, Writing Class   TLC SPEAKING TEST …

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