itself – English Grammar Profiler

B1, CLAUSES, complements, FOCUS, NOUNS, phrases, position / dislike, hate, itself, must, notice, noticed, P, PELIC, should, the, thing, V, VB

B1 Point 40 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: the noun phrase ‘The thing’ in front position, with a clause complement, to give focus to something. There is a slight overlap with B2 . . The thing _P _V 1 . THE THING I LIKE 577 2 . THE THING I LOVE 397 3 …

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A2, B1, PRONOUNS, range, reflexive, singular, VERBS / allow, bring, buy, call, calls, challenge, consider, defend, enjoy, herself, himself, imagine, introduce, itself, keep, kill, killed, lend, lends, let, limit, lose, myself, PELIC, position, PPX1, prepare, protect, prove, push, remind, save, set, setting, surround, TLC, V, yourself

B1 Point 55 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: increasing range of singular reflexive pronouns with an increasing range of verbs to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. A2 Point 12: range of singular reflexive pronouns (‘myself’, ‘yourself’) with a limited range of verbs (‘enjoy’, …

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B1, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reflexive, singular / ahead, allow, ashamed, bit, bring, by, care, check, consider, could, decide, describe, ever, experience, fool, happen, herself, himself, honest, I, if, information, introduce, itself, judge, just, keep, let, might, myself, opportunity, order, out, owe, PELIC, PPX1, protect, remind, save, should, so, still, top, true, try, upon, way, yourself

There are three very similar B1 points in the English Grammar Profile in the Category of PRONOUNS/singular reflexive Point 45 is defined as: ‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘himself’ and ‘herself’ after prepositions where the object of the preposition is the same as the subject of the verb. Point 65 is: ‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘himself’ and ‘herself’ for emphasis. …

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B2, PRONOUNS, reflexive, singular / itself, NN1, PELIC, PPX1

Point 93 in the category of PRONOUNS / reflexive is defined as singular pronoun ‘itself’ for emphasis. An iWeb search for _nn1 itself: 1 GAME ITSELF 15067 2 LIFE ITSELF 10893 3 CITY ITSELF 7443 4 SYSTEM ITSELF 7390 5 PROCESS ITSELF 7192 6 PRODUCT ITSELF 6909 7 BUILDING ITSELF 5512 8 DEVICE ITSELF 4694 …

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Complexity Checker / by, itself, PELIC

I am always looking for true learner texts to see how the complexity checker will perform.  EnglishGrammar.Pro is very lucky to have access to a very large and clearly documented learner corpus. PELIC is based on data collected from students at the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Pittsburgh from 2005-2012…. The IEP data include …

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