limited – English Grammar Profiler

B1, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PRESENT, simple / accepted, advised, allowed, am, approved, are, based, broken, built, called, charged, checked, completed, connected, considered, counted, covered, created, designed, displayed, expected, fixed, held, included, installed, intended, is, limited, located, lost, meant, mentioned, not, offered, permitted, prepared, protected, provided, received, recognized, recommended, registered, removed, required, satisfied, saved, selected, set, shared, sold, supported, tied, VB, VVN, XX

B1 Point 10 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE, NEGATIVE + range of pronoun and noun subjects *although ‘range of subjects’ is mentioned above, there is no entry for present simple negative elsewhere. There is no way to automatically check whether  these might actually be C1: ‘it’ with the passive voice …

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ADVERBS, B2, PREPOSITIONS, VERBS / based, benefit, closely, connected, designed, differ, directly, focus, for, go, greatly, heavily, I, invested, limited, on, PELIC, report, RR, solely, specifically, to, V, with, work

B2 English Grammar Profile point 51 in the category of VERBS/prepositional is defined as: adverb between the verb and the preposition For example: George says the piston’s going to go right through the block any minute now. listen   Alex, maybe if everything goes well with the paintings, Victor and I will tour and we could visit you in New York. listen An iWeb search for _VV *ly_R _II 1 GO DIRECTLY TO 17903 We‘re gonna go directly to the airport and get a plane. listen 2 BASED SOLELY ON 13229 We can’t work based solely on rumour, can we? …

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B1, B2, object, PASSIVES, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range, subject, VERBS / application, applied, article, attracted, content, entries, episode, event, force, given, goods, item, items, limited, links, offered, package, peace, pressure, product, provided, recipe, recommended, returned, series, service, services, sold

“This post is brought to you by English Grammar Pro. ”  The previous sentence is an example of B2 level grammar.  If that interests you, then read on. There are a few points in the category of PASSIVES and verbs taking two objects that overlap and clash for which CEFR level they indicate.  Before trying …

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