March 2021 – English Grammar Pro

Point 84 in the category of PAST: present perfect simple with the full negative forms with a wide range of verbs, often in formal contexts. An iWeb search for: _N…

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Point 83 in PAST is defined as:  ‘NOT ONLY … BUT ALSO’ the inverted form of the past simple with auxiliary ‘do’ *Note that any type of inversion with ‘not…

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Point 82 in the category of PAST is defined as: the past simple with ‘did’ for emphasis _N did _VVI 1 STUDY DID FIND 301 2 THINGS DID GET 205…

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Point 81 in PAST/simple is defined as: ‘yes/no’, ‘wh-‘, tag and negative question forms with a wide range of verbs. We have tried to cover this same topic also here. …

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Point 80 in the category of PAST is defined as: past simple ‘I thought’ as a politeness structure to sound less direct. If we follow the pattern of both the…

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Point 36 in PASSIVES is defined as: ‘it’ as a dummy subject, to summarise or evaluate in discussions, usually in formal or academic writing. This might clash with B2. A…

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There are 300 examples in the iWeb corpus of ‘, so needs’. Below we list 100 examples: *sorry about the formatting! 1 soundonsound.com partly because a musical has to create…

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If you look at the iWeb corpus, you will see that there are almost a million examples in it of a comma before ‘although’ However, ‘but’ has a comma before…

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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…

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Point 33 in PASSIVES is defined as: ‘GET’ + OBJECT + ‘-ING’ to talk about causing someone or something to do something. For example: And working with Craig got me…

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