married – English Grammar Profiler

B1, PAST, simple / agreed, and, appeared, arrived, away, broke, by, created, cried, decided, dried, ended, failed, fell, followed, happened, hesitated, hit, installed, involved, killed, laughed, lost, married, mentioned, nodded, occurred, passed, paused, PELIC, provided, removed, replied, returned, set, smiled, stole, tested, then, VVD, won

Point 35 in the category of PAST is defined: past simple to order sequences of events in the past, in the context of narratives. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I looked at the sheet and thought about it and then I continued following my sheet. When I noticed that I should have arrived, I called my brother and he told me that I had the wrong directions. Arabic male, level 5 grammar class. Two of the EGP examples use ‘and then’ while one only uses ‘and’ to connect past …

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B1, particle, PASSIVES / added, called, checked, dressed, get, hit, killed, lost, married, mixed, passed, picked, pulled, pushed, set, thrown, turned, VVN

Point 5 in the category of passives is defined as: a range of forms of ‘get’ + past participles. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I would like to get rid of my bad habits. Korean, Female, Level 3, Writing Class. A search in iWeb for: GET _VVN 1 GET RID 313567 2 GET STARTED 233345 3 GET PAID 68050 4 GET CAUGHT 54284 …

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B1, CLAUSES, non-defining, object, relative / believe, believed, believes, call, called, calls, described, describes, guess, hope, joined, married, turned, turns, who

Point 75 in CLAUSES is defined as: a non-defining relative clause with ‘who’ as the object. A search in iWeb for: , who _P _VV 1 , WHO HE SAID 968 2 , WHO I THINK 946 3 , WHO I BELIEVE 495 This is a design by Philippe Starck, who I believe is in the audience at this very moment.     4 , WHO SHE …

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