invested – English Grammar Profiler

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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C1, PASSIVES / addicted, elected, fired, get, invested, laser, lined, motivated, restored, settled, sorted, VVN

Point 35 in PASSIVES is defined as: ‘get’ + object + ‘-ed’ to talk about causing or instructing something to happen or to be done by somebody else, often informally A search in iWeb for: GET _N _VVN *not all the following match our grammar point. 1 GET PEOPLE EXCITED 734 (many of these are …

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C1, CLAUSES, conditional, imagine, MODALITY, PAST, perfect, regret, simple, subordinate / caused, could, had, have, if, invested, known, may, might, must, occurred, purchased, should, VM, VVN

C1 point 112 in CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: Conditional subordinate clauses with ‘if’ + the past perfect simple and modal verb + ‘have’ + ‘-ed’ in the main clause, to talk about imagined situations in the past, often with regret. *Note the same definition with ‘would‘ is listed at B1!  Basically, this means that for …

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assumption, B2, C1, formal, FUTURE, NEGATIVE, perfect, polite, simple / accomplished, acquired, attained, caused, contributed, dedicated, demonstrated, doubled, encountered, established, fulfilled, have, invested, noticed, occurred, suffered, VVN, will, you

There are 5 formally related grammar points in the English Grammar Profile in the category of FUTURE/perfect simple with ‘will.’  Many of them overlap and at C1 they are very rare and hard to find in corpora.  An example from the iWeb corpus of the future perfect form used for a polite assumption about the …

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