calls – English Grammar Profiler

B1, indefinite, PRONOUNS, range, singular, subject, VERBS / appears, beats, becomes, believes, bothers, breaks, calls, cares, complains, costs, deserves, doubts, exists, expects, fails, falls, fans, happens, hits, hurts, keeps, means, mentions, minds, moves, nobody, notices, owes, owns, pops, requires, seems, smells, something, sounds, sticks, turns, VVZ, wins

Point 39 in the category of PRONOUNS/indefinite is defined as: increasing range of indefinite pronouns (‘something’, ‘nobody’) as subjects, with a singular verb. An iWeb search for: something|nobody _VVZ 1 NOBODY WANTS 19942 2 NOBODY KNOWS 18838 3 SOMETHING GOES 18724 4 SOMETHING HAPPENS 15446 That’s because if something happens just once or twice, that’s really not enough to find any patterns. 5 NOBODY LIKES 8255 6 SOMETHING NEEDS 6347 …

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A2, B1, PRONOUNS, range, reflexive, singular, VERBS / allow, bring, buy, call, calls, challenge, consider, defend, enjoy, herself, himself, imagine, introduce, itself, keep, kill, killed, lend, lends, let, limit, lose, myself, PELIC, position, PPX1, prepare, protect, prove, push, remind, save, set, setting, surround, TLC, V, yourself

B1 Point 55 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: increasing range of singular reflexive pronouns with an increasing range of verbs to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. A2 Point 12: range of singular reflexive pronouns (‘myself’, ‘yourself’) with a limited range of verbs (‘enjoy’, …

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B1, CLAUSES, non-defining, object, relative / believe, believed, believes, call, called, calls, described, describes, guess, hope, joined, married, turned, turns, who

Point 75 in CLAUSES is defined as: a non-defining relative clause with ‘who’ as the object. A search in iWeb for: , who _P _VV 1 , WHO HE SAID 968 2 , WHO I THINK 946 3 , WHO I BELIEVE 495 This is a design by Philippe Starck, who I believe is in the audience at this very moment.     4 , WHO SHE …

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