discussed – English Grammar Profiler

ACL / academic, circles, debate, debated, discussed, especially, in, known, least, popular, referred, widely

FOR EXAMPLE: It was very popular in certain academic circles.   context Collocates in iWeb of ‘in academic circles’ 1 KNOWN 28 2 ESPECIALLY 17 3 DEBATE 14 4 POPULAR 12 5 DEBATED 11 6 LEAST 11 7 WIDELY 10 8 DISCUSSED 9 9 REFERRED 9 academic B2 circles A2 known A1 especially A2 debate B2 popular A2 debated C2 least …

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A2, expectation, FUTURE, NEGATIVE, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, simple / appeared, arrived, broken, checked, covered, decided, discovered, discussed, ended, expired, explored, failed, guessed, happened, has, have, haven’t, installed, joined, launched, lost, mentioned, not, noticed, occurred, ordered, PELIC, played, posted, purchased, realized, received, registered, replied, responded, returned, succeeded, tested, touched, tried, unlocked, updated, upgraded, voted, VVN, won, XX, yet

Here’s a student example of ‘present perfect simple negative‘: Today I can play very well with someone, even when I haven’t played for a long time. Portuguese female level 3 writing. A2 point 5 in the category of  NEGATION/AUXILIARY VERBS is defined: negative statements of main verbs in the present continuous and present perfect with ‘be’ and ‘have’ + ‘not/n’t’. A2 point 13 in the category of PAST is defined: …

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ADVERBS, B1, emphasis, expectation, perfect, PRESENT, simple, time / achieved, added, adopted, already, announced, applied, attracted, booked, built, caused, committed, completed, covered, created, decided, developed, discovered, discussed, earned, entered, established, experienced, expressed, happened, has, have, implemented, installed, invested, led, lost, mentioned, moved, noted, occurred, passed, pointed, posted, proved, provided, purchased, raised, reached, received, recommended, registered, released, set, signed, sold, spent, stated, submitted, tried, VVN, won

Point 22 in the category of PAST is defined as: present perfect simple with ‘already’ to emphasise that something is done, often before the expected time. FOR EXAMPLE: He is the most joyful person that I have ever met, and in just over a year, he has already made the world a better place.   A search in iWeb for: _VHZ already _VVN 1 HAS ALREADY BEGUN 7505 2 HAS ALREADY MADE 6871 3 HAS …

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