push – English Grammar Profiler

B1, infinitive, MODALITY / accept, act, adapt, add, adjust, admit, agree, assume, battle, beat, become, bite, break, bring, build, call, cancel, charge, check, compete, compromise, consider, continue, convince, cover, create, cut, deal, decide, defend, deliver, develop, dig, disagree, drop, earn, endure, expect, experiment, explain, fight, figure, fill, fix, focus, follow, force, grow, happen, hate, have, hire, hit, hold, hope, improve, include, increase, invest, jump, keep, kill, let, likely, lose, manage, mess, move, offer, order, overcome, pass, PELIC, perform, pick, plan, prepare, produce, prove, provide, pull, purchase, push, quit, raise, realize, rebuild, remove, replace, return, save, score, search, sell, set, settle, share, shoot, shut, sign, solve, sort, spend, stand, step, stick, suffer, switch, throw, to, trust, try, turn, upgrade, win

Point 117 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘have to’ as an infinitive form *This will overlap sometimes with B2 adjectives followed by an infinitive. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: A child is very expensive, this causes parents to have to work more, which can lead to frustration and anger. Taiwanese female, level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: * _TO have _TO _VVI 1 GOING TO HAVE TO GET 4269 …

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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, DETERMINERS, informal, NOUNS, quantity, spoken, uncountable / a, advice, air, bit, blood, break, care, cash, cooler, DA1, detail, difference, exercise, gift, guy, history, honey, hope, information, JJ, lemon, little, luck, magic, NN, of, oil, pain, PELIC, piece, plastic, practice, push, rest, side, slice, space, story, variety, video, way

B1 English Grammar Profile point 49 in DETERMINERS is defined as: quantifying determiners with uncountable nouns, often in informal and/or spoken contexts (‘a little’, ‘a bit of’ and ‘a little bit of’) *note, ‘little’ is hard to tag as a determiner and not an adjective.  Also, we believe that pronouns and other determiners should be …

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