clearly – English Grammar Profiler

academic / BE, brief, can, clearly, compare, compares, illustrate, illustrates, in, it, major, NN, overall, present, presents, show, shows, specific, summarise, summary, to, VVN

I’m often asked by my students just before they take an IELTS test for some quick tips on what to study before a particular task.  Therefore, in this post, I will summarise the salient grammar and vocabulary features I found in very good introductions and overviews in the Academic IELTS  Task 1 tests using our …

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A2, ADVERBS, manner, modify / ABLE, adding, arrive, by, clearly, contacted, could, early, easily, further, golden, if, immediately, information, killed, mind, move, PELIC, pepper, quickly, RR, serve, should, so, sure, VV

Point 28 in ADVERBS is defined: limited range of manner adverbs and adverb phrases to modify how something happens. PELIC STUDENTS: The most important thing is to practise because with no practise, you will forget quickly. Arabic male level 3 writing class.   Yesterday I woke up early because I had a test. Arabic male level 2 writing class. *’early’ is more of a time adverb. A search in iWeb for: _VV *ly_RR . 1 …

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ADVERBS, B1, FUTURE / actually, also, always, certainly, clearly, definitely, either, ever, finally, just, likely, never, obviously, only, probably, really, RR, still, surely, VB, VVGK

Point 34 in the category of FUTURE: ‘be going to’ with a  limited range of adverbs, after the auxiliary be form, in the normal mid position. The EGP examples of adverbs include ‘never’ and ‘really’. An iWeb search for: _VB _RR _VVGK *we removed the past forms of BE 1 ‘M JUST GOING 10741 TLC …

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ADVERBS, C1, modify, range, stance / admittedly, amazingly, apparently, clearly, exceptionally, frankly, inevitably, literally, naturally, RR, simply, surely, surprisingly, truly, wisely

Point 62 in ADVERBS/modifiers: (simply, truly, surely, apparently, naturally, surprisingly, inevitably, literally, exceptionally, frankly, clearly, amazingly, wisely, admittedly) to indicate an attitude or viewpoint, often in clause initial position. *Some of these adverbs are sometimes used in other ways too, but they are all at B1 or higher, so the complexity range of adverb usage …

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