determine – English Grammar Profiler

ADVERBS, C2, expectation, infinitive, VERBS / determine, identify, release, respond, reveal, to, VVI, yet

At C2 in the English Vocabulary Profile, is the structure: BE or HAVE + yet + TO-infinitive to express something expected that was not done. For example: This has yet to grow in evidence until it can come to practice. TED   A search in the NOW corpus for: _V yet _TO _VVI 1 IS YET TO COME 11897re 2 HAS YET TO MAKE …

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infinitive, VERBS / create, deal, determine, ensure, identify, if, keep, maintain, our, purchase, something, to, trying, VVI

Let’s look at the most frequent ‘to infinitives’ on the internet in the top 100 verbs.  Our research is by doing a search in iWeb for _TO _VVI At A2, ‘keep’ stands out. We have put in bold the most frequent collocations too: I’m trying hard to keep my family out of my life. Cat Run At B1, ‘create’ is the most frequent. The …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, infinitive / announce, apply, assume, completely, consider, create, determine, eligible, ensure, extremely, fairly, important, impossible, incredibly, JJ, note, pleasantly, recognize, remember, RR, to, V, VVI, willing

This structure is at least B1 since it will often catch modality with hedging and emphasis.  It either will show the ability to place adverbs in the middle position or premodify and postmodify adjectives. An iWeb search for: _V _RR _JJ _TO _VV 1 IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE 3883 2 ‘S ALSO IMPORTANT TO …

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C2, CLAUSES, conditional, MODALITY / appoint, commence, comply, constitute, consult, determine, discuss, if, notify, prescribe, prevail, proceed, refer, retain, shall, share, VM, VVI

Here’s an expert example of using a conditional clause + ‘shall’ clause to express modality: Come on, if we don’t share a similar social consciousness, how shall we discuss social problems? Listen to this sentence. C2 point 225 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘shall’ in the main clause after an ‘if-‘ clause conditionals Long open queries are impossible on iWeb, so here we first look for the …

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belief, C1, GSE, opinion, PASSIVES, PRONOUNS, subject / assist, believed, bound, calculate, cause, considered, consult, consume, CST, determine, enable, expected, generate, identify, indicate, it, PELIC, purchase, reported, thought, to, treat, VB, VVI, VVN, was

Let’s take a look at an IELTS writing task 2 example with this grammar: It is argued that volunteering should be made a part of the school curriculum. In the above example, ‘is argued‘ forms the passive part.  The active form of this is probably: ‘People argue that…” In our example, ‘people’ is not important or maybe we don’t know who …

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ADJECTIVES, C2, infinitive, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / cause, determine, eligible, identify, JJ, obtain, participate, PELIC, see, to, uncommon, VB, VVI, XX

Here’s an expert example in the news of modality expressed with the ‘BE’ not + ADJECTIVE + to-INFINTIVE’ grammar structure:   Quartz For many Chinese internet users, it is not uncommon to see bloggers they follow fall out of their news feeds. Point 212 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘be’ + ‘not’ + adjective + ‘to’ + infinitive a search on iWeb for: _VB _XX _JJ _TO _VVI 1 ‘S …

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