fail – English Grammar Profiler

A2, CLAUSES, conditional, likelihood, PRESENT, simple, true / can, fail, fails, happens, if, lose, PELIC, prefer, VV0, VVZ, win, wins, wish

Point 31 in the category of CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: ‘if’ + present simple with present simple, ‘can’ or imperative in the main clause to refer to things that are true now or very likely to happen. *Note this point overlaps many others, such as: A2 if you want | like | prefer + imperative …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, infinitive / afraid, busy, call, complete, fail, fall, far, fit, forget, heavy, hold, JJ, join, keep, large, lazy, list, lose, pass, save, to, too, try, turn, VVI

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 68 in the category of CLAUSES/comparatives is defined as: ‘TOO’ + adjective + ‘to’-infinitive. Here’s a search in the iWeb corpus for: too _J to _VVI 1 TOO EARLY TO TELL 4736 2 TOO EARLY TO SAY 4112 3 TOO EARLY TO START 3206 4 TOO GOOD TO PASS 2967 …

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