registered – English Grammar Profiler

A2, expectation, FUTURE, NEGATIVE, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, simple / appeared, arrived, broken, checked, covered, decided, discovered, discussed, ended, expired, explored, failed, guessed, happened, has, have, haven’t, installed, joined, launched, lost, mentioned, not, noticed, occurred, ordered, PELIC, played, posted, purchased, realized, received, registered, replied, responded, returned, succeeded, tested, touched, tried, unlocked, updated, upgraded, voted, VVN, won, XX, yet

Here’s a student example of ‘present perfect simple negative‘: Today I can play very well with someone, even when I haven’t played for a long time. Portuguese female level 3 writing. A2 point 5 in the category of  NEGATION/AUXILIARY VERBS is defined: negative statements of main verbs in the present continuous and present perfect with ‘be’ and ‘have’ + ‘not/n’t’. A2 point 13 in the category of PAST is defined: …

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ADVERBS, B1, emphasis, expectation, perfect, PRESENT, simple, time / achieved, added, adopted, already, announced, applied, attracted, booked, built, caused, committed, completed, covered, created, decided, developed, discovered, discussed, earned, entered, established, experienced, expressed, happened, has, have, implemented, installed, invested, led, lost, mentioned, moved, noted, occurred, passed, pointed, posted, proved, provided, purchased, raised, reached, received, recommended, registered, released, set, signed, sold, spent, stated, submitted, tried, VVN, won

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 22 in the category of PAST is defined as: present perfect simple with ‘already’ to emphasise that something is done, often before the expected time. FOR EXAMPLE: He is the most joyful person that I have ever met, and in just over a year, he has already made the world a better place.   A search in iWeb for: _VHZ already _VVN 1 HAS ALREADY BEGUN 7505 2 …

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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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