indicated – English Grammar Profiler

ADVERBS, conditional / an, but, can, empty, fine, healthy, indicated, known, may, otherwise, pretty, proven, quiet, state, stressful, suggest, tense, think, will, would

The adverb ‘otherwise‘ has 3 listings in the English Vocabulary Profile. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN B1 used after an order or suggestion to show what the result will be if you do not follow that order or suggestion A search in the NOW corpus for: , otherwise _P _V 1 , OTHERWISE IT WILL 1394 There …

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C2, CLAUSES, cleft, emphasis, PRONOUNS, subject / indicated, it, justifies, N, V, who

Point 116 in PRONOUNS is defined as: a cleft construction beginning with ‘it’ to emphasise the subject of the main clause. FOR EXAMPLE: After all, it’s individuals who are to blame here, right? *Seems like religious contexts use this structure. An iWeb search for: It _V _N who _V 1 IT IS GOD WHO IS 218 2 IT IS GOD WHO …

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C1, CLAUSES, conditional, ellipsis, participle / adopted, combined, consumed, desired, detected, elected, enabled, equipped, forced, granted, if, implemented, indicated, omitted, placed, presented, purchased, released, specified, stored, swallowed, treated, VVN

C1 English Grammar Profile point 106 in CLAUSES is defined as: ellipted ‘if’ clauses with ‘if’ + ‘-ed’ form. A search in iWeb for: if _VVN 1 IF NEEDED 103856 If needed, I will speak for you. 2 IF DESIRED 43002 3 IF REQUIRED 42676 4 IF USED 28178 5 IF GIVEN 14680 6 IF …

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B2, PAST, perfect, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, statements / added, admitted, announced, claimed, confessed, confirmed, explained, had, indicated, mentioned, repented, reported, revealed, stated, testified, VVD, VVN, wrote

Point 75 in the category of PAST is defined as: Past perfect simple to report statements, where the main verb in the reporting clause is in the past simple. *This point overlaps B1. So we might surmise that ‘said’ and ‘told’ are B1 and other reporting verbs might be B2 within this structure. A search …

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