qualify – English Grammar Profiler

B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, become, believe, bother, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, cover, exist, expect, fall, fit, happen, hold, hurt, include, keep, lead, let, match, matter, mean, might, mind, not, notice, occur, offer, pass, PELIC, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, require, respond, return, save, seem, sell, share, sound, stand, suit, support, survive, turn, VVI, win, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 73 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘might’ negative form ‘Might not + infinitive‘ means that there is a chance someone or something won’t do or happen. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Even though she has a very good relationship with children, she might not be good at raising them. Chinese Female level 3 reading class   TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: I might not earn as much as others do. …

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B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, add, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, assign, become, believe, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, copy, cover, display, enter, exceed, exist, experience, fit, function, happen, hold, include, lead, match, matter, may, mean, modify, not, notice, occur, offer, operate, participate, PELIC, perform, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, remove, represent, require, respond, result, return, seem, sell, serve, share, sound, suit, support, survive, transfer, turn, VM, VVI, wish, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 94 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘may’ negative PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: However, you may not deny that you can not buy happiness even if you have too much money. Korean male, level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: may_VM not _V*I 1 MAY NOT KNOW 28529 2 MAY NOT WORK 22681 3 MAY NOT WANT 17165 4 MAY …

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B1, ellipsis, MODALITY, subject / admit, apply, attend, bring, call, check, complete, contain, credit, demonstrate, enter, hold, include, keep, maintain, mention, must, obtain, pass, possess, provide, purchase, qualify, register, sign, submit, try, VVI

B1 Point 116 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ellipted ‘must’ without a subject *Note the general B2 subject pronoun ellipsis A search in iWeb for: . must _VVI *also note that this grammar is either non-existent in PELIC student writing or very difficult to locate in TLC or on Google.  The example come …

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