hurt – English Grammar Profiler

B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, become, believe, bother, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, cover, exist, expect, fall, fit, happen, hold, hurt, include, keep, lead, let, match, matter, mean, might, mind, not, notice, occur, offer, pass, PELIC, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, require, respond, return, save, seem, sell, share, sound, stand, suit, support, survive, turn, VVI, win, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 73 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘might’ negative form ‘Might not + infinitive‘ means that there is a chance someone or something won’t do or happen. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Even though she has a very good relationship with children, she might not be good at raising them. Chinese Female level 3 reading class   TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: I might not earn as much as others do. …

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B1, FUTURE, intention, NEGATIVE, plan / allow, argue, beat, become, believe, bother, break, bring, call, comment, complain, cover, cut, discuss, fall, fix, happen, hold, hurt, keep, kill, let, lie, lose, move, PELIC, pretend, save, sell, solve, spend, stand, try, turn, waste, win

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 26 in the category of FUTURE is defined: the negative form of ‘be going to’ to talk about plans and intentions EXPERT EXAMPLES: The words mean the same thing, so we‘re not going to waste any more time differentiating between them. the18.com *This is hard to find automatically because this structure is difficult to differentiate from predictions with present …

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B1, complements, indefinite, object, PRONOUNS, range / adds, advise, allow, allowing, allows, anyone, believe, blame, call, challenge, convince, costs, doubt, encourage, everywhere, expect, hurt, hurting, imagine, kill, let, mean, means, meant, nothing, PELIC, PN, prevent, received, recommend, surprise, TLC, trust, VV

in the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 58 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: wide range of indefinite pronouns as objects or complements. For example: You don’t have to show anyone any of these steps. TED *We have taken the 3 pronouns found in the EGP examples as the basis for our search in iWeb corpus: _VV nothing|anyone|everywhere …

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A2, NEGATIVE, PAST / add, agree, believe, bother, break, bring, call, care, fit, follow, happen, hit, hold, hurt, include, keep, kill, let, lose, match, matter, mean, mind, move, notice, offer, PELIC, pick, receive, return, sell, sound, spend, try, turn, VVI, win

A2 English Grammar Profile point 10 in the category of NEGATION is defined as: negative statements of main verbs in the past simple with ‘didn’t’ + main verb A search in iWeb for: did n’t _VVI 1 DID N’T KNOW 189531 2 DID N’T WANT 163517 3 DID N’T GET 103113 4 DID N’T THINK …

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A2, complements, indefinite, object, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, subject / across, against, alone, among, around, believe, bring, by, call, calling, everybody, everyone, hope, hoping, hurt, II, including, keep, keeping, kill, let, mean, means, off, over, PELIC, plus, PN1, somebody, someone, suit, thank, through, V, wish, without

A search in iWeb corpus for: _PN1 1 SOMETHING 7038440 2 ONE 7014912 3 EVERYTHING 3661675 4 SOMEONE 3447852 5 ANYTHING 3347394 6 EVERYONE 3007402 7 NOTHING 2966176 8 ANYONE 2741077 9 NO ONE 863063 (PN121 PN122) 10 EVERYBODY 476935 11 NOBODY 451477 12 SOMEBODY 350684 13 ANYBODY 307399 Here’s a student example of the …

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