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A2, affirmative, base, CLAUSES, imperatives, NEGATIVE, VERBS / add, bear, believe, boil, bring, call, click, contact, do, follow, forget, free, full, help, hope, however, if, include, keep, let, list, me, mind, most, out, PELIC, prepare, set, sharing, so, star, sure, take, thank, try, us, VD, video, view, VV0, VVI, XX

Here are two A2 English Grammar Profile points in different categories that cover imperatives. Point 39 in the category of CLAUSES is defined: affirmative imperative with the base form of a main verb Point 7 in NEGATION:  negative imperatives of main verbs with ‘don’t’ + main verb. However, ‘let me/us’ is listed at B2 in …

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B1, CLAUSES, conditional, FUTURE, MODALITY, possibility, PRESENT, result, simple / add, BE, become, build, can, careful, check, click, decide, happen, if, information, keep, mind, mistake, PELIC, plan, prefer, save, should, try, VM, wish, would, yourself

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 74 in the category of CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE ‘IF’ CLAUSE + MODAL, FUTURE, POSSIBLE OUTCOME: introduce a possible future condition, with modal verbs in the main clause, to talk about a possible result. A search in TED corpus for expert examples: If you‘ve got a couple of final words you want to share, that would be great. listen So if you look that up, you can hear more of those tunes. listen PELIC …

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A2, CLAUSES, conditional, hedging, imperatives, offer, PRESENT, simple, suggestion / add, bring, call, check, click, enter, if, let, like, prefer, try, want

Here are two English Grammar Profile points at A2 that overlap formally. Point 9 in the category of CLAUSES/conditional is defined: ‘if’ + present simple, with an imperative in the main clause. Point 22 in the category of CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: HEDGING: ‘if-‘ clause (‘if you want’, ‘like’, ‘prefer’) to soften the directness of …

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ADVERBS, B1, MODALITY, range / add, also, always, become, bring, call, can, check, click, contact, download, dream, even, follow, guess, hope, include, just, keep, mean, offer, only, PELIC, really, RR, save, serve, set, still, try, view, VVI

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 120 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘can’ with a limited range of adverbs (including ‘also’, ‘always’, ‘even’, ‘just’, ‘only’, ‘really’, ‘still’) in the normal mid position after the modal verb. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Some old people can only sit on the wheelchair. Chinese female level 3 writing class. A search on iWeb for: can_VM …

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C1, CLAUSES, conditional, consequence, imperatives, introduce / and, click, contact, look, scroll, try, VV0

In the English Grammar Profile, C1 point 105 in clauses is defined as: imperatives to introduce a condition followed by ‘and’ to introduce a consequence of the condition. Unfortunately, we cannot do more than 5 part searches in iWeb.  A search for: . _VV0 * and _P 2 . TRY IT AND YOU 322   Forbes Try …

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