building – English Grammar Profiler
A2, ADJECTIVES, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, singular, superlative / baseball, building, coach, college, companies, fashion, highest, II, in, JJT, largest, latest, mind, mountain, NN, north, office, program, record, richest, seat, seats, south, story, team, teams, views, worst
Point 11 in the category of ADJECTIVES: prepositional phrases with ‘in’ + singular name of a place after a superlative adjective. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I am not shy with girls, I always tell my brother don’t be shy with them, they are the best creatures in the world. Arabic male level 2 writing class. A search in iWeb for: _JJT _NN in _N 1 BEST THINGS IN LIFE 1698 2 BEST …
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B1, continuous, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS / attending, avoiding, been, blogging, building, checking, coaching, collecting, considering, craving, creating, dating, designing, dreaming, experiencing, feeding, fighting, focusing, following, has, have, hiding, holding, itching, keeping, longing, meaning, missing, noticing, PELIC, performing, photographing, planning, preparing, saving, searching, selling, sewing, shooting, spending, standing, struggling, training, trying, VVG, wondering
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 31 in the category of PAST is defined: present perfect continuous: QUESTIONS with a limited range of verbs. Note that questions are generally low frequency in the CLC probably due to lack of spoken data. *Also note that there are no other entries for ‘range of verbs’ PELIC …
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A2, formal, FUTURE, phrasal, PREPOSITIONS, VERBS / ABLE, actually, already, assisting, building, challenge, closely, continuing, fans, forward, II, look, most, NN, opportunity, out, PELIC, receiving, response, rest, returning, serving, so, to, trying, VVG, welcoming
In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 13 in the category of VERBS/phrasal-prepositional is defined as: ‘look forward to’ as a fixed expression followed by an ‘-ing’ form or noun phrase, usually at the end of correspondence. However, the English Vocabulary Profile lists this at: B1 to feel happy and excited about something that is …
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ADJECTIVES, B1, B2, CLAUSES, comparatives, complex, CONJUNCTIONS, GSE, non-finite, phrases / accurate, booking, building, convenient, efficient, hiring, JJ, JJR, keeping, letting, losing, renting, replacing, spending, than, throwing, trying, VVG, winning, worse
The English Grammar Profile B1 Point 84 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: ‘than’ + a limited range of non-finite clauses (with -ing), forming the second part of a comparison after a comparative adjective This point partially overlaps PEARSON’S: GSE 62 B2 complex comparisons between verb/noun phrases VERB PHRASE 1/NOUN PHRASE 1 + …
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B1, B2, gerund, pattern, range, VERBS / adding, avoid, building, built, calculated, checking, consider, continue, created, experience, keep, keeps, kept, missing, moving, planning, pushing, recommend, suggest, tried, try, trying, VV, VVG
Point 29 in the category of verbs/patterns is B1 and defined as: limited range of verbs followed by an ‘-ing’ form. Point 56 in Verbs/patterns is B2 and defined as an increasing range of verbs followed by an ‘-ing’ form. A search for _VV _VVG in iWeb corpus: 1 KEEP GOING 656012 STARTED USING 54040 …
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A2, PASSIVES, PAST, simple, singular / added, born, bridge, broken, brought, building, built, castle, century, church, completed, cut, filled, followed, hall, held, hit, killed, lost, meant, offered, passed, posted, recorded, set
Here’s a past simple passive example: “The church was built in 1663.” is an example of A2 passive grammar. In the English Grammar Profile, point 1 in the category of PASSIVE is: past simple affirmative after a singular subject. A search for was _vvn on iWeb corpus: 1 WAS BORN 459313 2 WAS MADE 320241 …
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