return – English Grammar Profiler
A2, CLAUSES, non-finite, purpose, subordinate / ABLE, add, another, around, clear, even, fair, few, find out, goal, idea, if, keep, learn, matters, most, PELIC, return, sign, so, sure, to, top, VVI, worse
English Grammar Profile A2 point 32 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: non-finite subordinate clause with ‘to’, to introduce purpose For example: I paid you a lot of money to do this job. listen *This grammar is very hard to locate in corpora if it isn’t at the front of the sentence. It is also overlapped by other grammar points. For …
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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, 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, affirmative, FUTURE, MODALITY, possibility, PRESENT, weak / add, allow, appear, apply, become, benefit, bring, call, charge, collect, consider, contact, contain, continue, create, decide, develop, enter, exist, experience, explain, fall, happen, hold, include, increase, involve, lead, lose, may, mean, might, notice, offer, order, PELIC, prefer, prevent, produce, prove, provide, receive, recommend, reduce, remain, request, require, result, return, seem, serve, share, sound, suggest, try, turn, VM, VVI, wish
A2 points 34 and 48 in the category of MODALITY are defined as: ‘may‘ to talk about weak possibility referring to the present and the future affirmative A2 point 47: ‘might’ … weak possibility. An iWeb search for: may_VM _VVI 1 MAY NEED 294017 2 MAY WANT 253501 3 MAY TAKE 159078 4 MAY INCLUDE 156112 …
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B1, PRESENT, range, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, VERBS / adding, article, availability, average, chart, column, company, create, crossed, data, employment, examination, experience, figure, flag, god, graph, guide, if, illustration, image, just, list, location, locations, majority, map, method, most, percentage, post, price, prices, proportion, ratio, report, research, resources, results, return, say, says, section, series, show, shows, sign, signs, size, sleeve, stock, such, tin, topic, trade, trend, value, video, VV0, VVZ, wage, web, weekly
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 26 in the category of PRESENT/simple is defined: a limited range of reporting verbs, including ‘say’, ‘show’ EXPERT EXAMPLE: This map shows the presence of agriculture on planet Earth. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Some people say that money is the root of all evil, but I disagree with it. Korean male, writing class. _P show|shows|say|says * * * We have removed lines that are not …
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B1, B2 / act, appear, apply, as, call, check, crash, disappear, follow, happen, move, notice, P, pop, register, reply, return, ship, soon, try, update, vote, VVI
This is another clashing point. Although ‘as soon as’ is listed at B1 future, it is also listed in B2 conjunctions. FOR EXAMPLE: It will end as soon as Hedge finds his target. A search in iWeb for: _VVI as soon as _P 1 KNOW AS SOON AS WE 441 2 KNOW AS SOON AS YOU 362 3 KNOW AS SOON …
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A2, NEGATIVE, PAST / add, agree, believe, bother, break, bring, call, care, fit, follow, happen, hit, hold, hurt, include, keep, kill, let, lose, match, matter, mean, mind, move, notice, offer, PELIC, pick, receive, return, sell, sound, spend, try, turn, VVI, win
A2 English Grammar Profile point 10 in the category of NEGATION is defined as: negative statements of main verbs in the past simple with ‘didn’t’ + main verb A search in iWeb for: did n’t _VVI 1 DID N’T KNOW 189531 2 DID N’T WANT 163517 3 DID N’T GET 103113 4 DID N’T THINK …
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B2, ellipsis, informal, PRONOUNS, subject / again, author, based, definitely, highly, makes, no, permission, recommend, return, sense, signed, wait, would
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 85 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: (SUBJECT) ELLIPSIS: leave out the subject pronoun with a limited range of verbs, in informal contexts. *this will clash with imperatives and iWeb searches time out too much, so here we search for modals, past participles and 3rd person verbs. …
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phrases, PREPOSITIONS / all, being, but, CS, example, fear, for, getting, if, II22, in, instance, most, of, on, once, part, return, REX21, RR21, RR41, sure, the, time
In this post, we investigate 11 ways ‘for’ is tagged by the claws 7 tag set. 1 FOR (IF) 140146366 preposition 1 . FOR MORE INFORMATION 77314 2 . FOR THOSE WHO 22531 3 THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL 19815 4 THE REASON FOR THIS IS 19424 5 . FOR ME , 18503 6 …
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A2, B1, facts, infinitive, MODALITY, permission / ABLE, add, allowed, bring, enter, move, offer, pick, return, save, share, supposed, TLC, to, VB, view
This is another post about overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile. B1 point 76 in MODALITY: ‘BE ALLOWED TO’, PERMISSION B1 point 99 in Modality and expressions with be is defined as: a limited range of expressions with ‘be’ + infinitive (‘be allowed to’, ‘be supposed to’, ‘be able to’) with present and …
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