remember – English Grammar Profiler

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, infinitive / announce, apply, assume, completely, consider, create, determine, eligible, ensure, extremely, fairly, important, impossible, incredibly, JJ, note, pleasantly, recognize, remember, RR, to, V, VVI, willing

This structure is at least B1 since it will often catch modality with hedging and emphasis.  It either will show the ability to place adverbs in the middle position or premodify and postmodify adjectives. An iWeb search for: _V _RR _JJ _TO _VV 1 IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE 3883 2 ‘S ALSO IMPORTANT TO …

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B1, CLAUSES, GSE, mental, PRESENT, range, simple, VERBS / agree, believe, correctly, fact, far, hear, heard, however, if, importance, kid, mean, PELIC, personally, remember, sure, that, TLC, understand, while

In the English Grammar Profile at B1, point 28 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: an increasing range of mental process verbs, including ‘remember’, ‘understand’, ‘believe’ A similar addition to this point is Pearson’s GSE 62 B2 speak about information acquired from others using ‘hear’ + ‘(that +)’ complement clause. I hear that John and Susie are getting married. I’ve heard that Martin ‘s lost his job. …

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B1, infinitive, range, VERBS / appear, appears, considered, continue, continues, expected, forget, go, hope, meant to, need, PELIC, proved, remember, seem, seemed, seems, to, toilet, VVI

A2 point 25 in VERBs/patterns: increasing range of verbs followed by a ‘to’-infinitive. A2 examples include: hope to go remember to bring (this clashes with the B2 point for a change of meaning verb forms) forget to come. B1 Point 43 in VERBS/patterns is defined as: a wide range of verbs followed by a ‘to-‘ infinitive Two …

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B2, gerund, infinitive, VERBS / remember, stop, VVG, VVI

Point 45 in VERBS is defined as: follow some verbs with a ‘to’-infinitive or an ‘-ing’ form, with a change in meaning. *The verbs in the EGP examples are ‘remember’ and ‘stop’. It is interesting that that top 25 ‘remember’ are all in the base/infinitive form for remember.  Where as ‘stop’ has a few past …

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agreement, B1, NEGATIVE, options, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS, simple, tags / agree, care, heard, know, remember, see, think, understand, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 17 in the category of  QUESTIONS is defined as: auxiliary ‘do’ and ‘have’ + ‘n’t’ + subject + main verb to form negative ‘yes/no’ questions. This overlaps point 24 in the category of PRESENT/simple: NEGATIVE TAG QUESTIONS ‘don’t you think’ or ‘don’t you agree’ to look for agreement …

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ADJECTIVES, article, B2, infinitive, superlative / cheapest, fastest, important, JJT, most, NN, remember, save, the, thing, to, VVI, way

Superlatives and infinitives for upper-intermediate students.