responded – 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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B1, PAST, perfect, simple / anticipated, arrived, bothered, committed, completed, considered, expected, experienced, forgotten, had, happened, intended, lost, moved, not, noticed, occurred, PELIC, planned, provided, reached, realized, received, responded, returned, tried, VHD, VVN, won, XX

Point 24 in the category of PAST perfect simple: negative forms. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: At that time, I had not found my job and I had a lot of free time. Chinese male, level 3 writing class. A search on iWeb for: _VHD _XX _VVN 1 HAD N’T SEEN 10519 2 HAD NOT SEEN 8370 3 HAD N’T HEARD 6433 4 HAD N’T THOUGHT 5405 5 …

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B2, direct, position, REPORTED SPEECH / claimed, commented, muttered, observed, P, PELIC, recalled, remarked, responded, sighed, stated, VVD, whispered

Point 15 in the category of REPORTED SPEECH / DIRECT SPEECH is defined as: the reporting verb in the mid position of the reported clause. Here’s a list of the 10 most common B2 reporting verbs found in the mid position: claimed, commented, muttered, observed, recalled, remarked, responded, sighed, stated, whispered This is a very …

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