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This post will attempt to untangle another set of grammar features that are clashing across levels. The centre of the confusion starts with: C1 Point 63 in the category of ADVERB phrases which is defined as: degree adverbs (‘slightly‘, ‘a bit‘, ‘much‘) to modify comparatives. But it clashes completely with B2 Point 57 in the category […]

Point 202 in MODALITY is defined as: PAST AFFIRMATIVE ‘ought to have’ + ‘-ed’ to refer to desired states of affairs in the past. 1 OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN 2986 2 OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN 850 3 OUGHT TO HAVE DONE 575 4 OUGHT TO HAVE HAD 230 5 OUGHT TO HAVE SAID 133 6 […]

Point 180 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘ought to’ with ‘really’ to add emphasis. A search on iWeb for clusters with lexical verbs: 1 REALLY OUGHT TO KNOW 254 2 REALLY OUGHT TO GET 136 3 REALLY OUGHT TO GO 76 4 REALLY OUGHT TO CONSIDER 75 Golf Channel Why ‘The […]

Point 192 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘THERE OUGHT TO BE” to talk about desired states of affairs. iWeb search for * * * 1 THERE OUGHT TO BE A WAY TO 66 2 THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGAINST 33 Daily Mail SARAH VINE: Hurrah for Carole Middleton! But […]

There are 4 grammar points in the English Grammar Profile related in the categories of future and perfect simple with ‘will.’ The first three are B2. Point 48 is defined as AFFIRMATIVE Point 52 is defined as: something which is expected to be completed (or not completed) by a certain point in the future. Point […]

Nine points on the English Grammar Profile cover the ‘not only’ ‘but also’ grammar structure. It is easy to see that using the structure is all over B2, but it is not easy to find exact matching for each and every point. In reality, these points will be quite rare in most students work. In […]

There are a number of overlapping points when it comes to negative questions in the English Grammar Profile. At a purely formal level, we can identify an adverb position in a negative question to identify B2, but at usage level, some of these would be considered rhetorical or persuasive strategies found at the more advanced […]

Points 140, 142, 158, 176 and 214 in the category of MODALITY are used for PAST POSSIBILITY, SPECULATION, REGRET, CRITICISM. On the Left, iWeb corpus gives us the following past participles: 1 COULD HAVE BEEN 178902 On the right further collocations, 4 to the left and right are from COCA corpus: 1 WORSE (JJR ) […]

Point 210 in MODALITY on the English Grammar Profile is based on MODIFYING an ADJECTIVE for HEDGING with a degree adverb. We are offered only two examples: Collocates 4 sides to the left and right on iWeb corpus for “quite probable“: 1 IT (PPH1 ) 528 2 SEEMS (VVZ ) 31 3 POSSIBLE (JJ […]

Point 206 in Modality, in the English Grammar Profile, is used to say that something is probably true. Looking at 4 spaces to the right of the expression on iWeb corpus we find the following collocates which point to the fact the expression is often used with more modality. Two of those are contractions of […]