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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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ACL / academic, circles, debate, debated, discussed, especially, in, known, least, popular, referred, widely

FOR EXAMPLE: It was very popular in certain academic circles.   context Collocates in iWeb of ‘in academic circles’ 1 KNOWN 28 2 ESPECIALLY 17 3 DEBATE 14 4 POPULAR 12 5 DEBATED 11 6 LEAST 11 7 WIDELY 10 8 DISCUSSED 9 9 REFERRED 9 academic B2 circles A2 known A1 especially A2 debate B2 popular A2 debated C2 least …

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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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C1, C2, CLAUSES, conditional, formal, inversion, perfect, subordinate / allowed, born, desire, disposed, forced, had, have, I, JK, known, should, smoked, VHD, VM, VVN, were, would, you

Here are examples of subject – auxiliary verb inversion replacing the usual ‘if’: Had I known what was inside, I would have smoked it. Listen   Should you desire, I can provide character references. Listen   Were I allowed to defend myself, I could have proven this to you. context This is another post that points at overlapping points on the English Grammar Profile.  Parts of two points are worded differently but basically locate the same structure for “should” starting a sentence.  …

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