interested – English Grammar Profiler

A2, affirmative, auxiliary, CLAUSES, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, simple, VERBS / BE, correct, did, do, enough, fair, have, interested, kidding, perfect, planning, serious, sure, true, trying, VB, VD, VH, VVG, XX, you

Here is another group of A2 English Grammar Profile points that overlap multiple categories.  Many of these could be all merged into one point. Point 3 in the category of QUESTIONS: yes/no AUXILIARY ‘BE’ + subject + the continuous A search in NOW corpus for: _VB _P _VVG 1 ARE YOU GOING 38887 2 ARE …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, degree, gradable / amazing, awesome, busy, called, clear, comfortable, cool, full, glad, high, interested, JJ, large, low, lucky, PELIC, pleased, popular, pretty, quite, really, RG, simple, so, SPECIAL, strong, sure, true, useful

Point 32 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying: adverbs of degree (‘really’, ‘so’, ‘quite’) with an increasing range of common gradable adjectives. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I was so hungry, so I ate two sandwiches. Korean male level 2 writing class. An iWeb search for: really|so|quite _JJ 1 REALLY GOOD 291861 2 SO GOOD 182087 3 SO EASY 127227 4 SO IMPORTANT 102790 5 SO …

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advice, B1, MODALITY, polite, suggestion / ABLE, add, avoid, aware, away, bring, by, check, consider, create, even, expect, familiar, guessed, include, interested, just, keep, might, need, noticed, off, reconsider, surprised, talk, tempted, try, want, wondering, you, yourself

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 92 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘might’ to make polite suggestions and give advice. We cannot automatically check a corpus for usage, but we can follow the EGP examples which both contain the pronoun ‘you’. An iWeb search for: You might * * * 1 YOU MIGHT BE …

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A2, ADJECTIVES, range / afraid, amazing, available, careful, clear, complete, correct, free, full, interested, JJ, PELIC, perfect, simple, sure, surprised, true, useful, VB

In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 16 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: increasing range of adjectives predicatively, after ‘be’. *This grammar point is better expanded in the English Vocabulary Profile because it offers more detail about vocabulary. A search on iWeb for _VB _JJ  *note that not all of the following are ‘predicative’ 1 BE …

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