score – English Grammar Profiler

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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B1, demonstrative, mentioned, phrases, plural, PRONOUNS / another, areas, certainly, couple, definitely, either, few, field, improve, interview, just, most, rid, score, sign, those, top, type, types, V

In the English Grammar Profile, there are two almost identical B1 grammar points for ‘those’ in the category of PRONOUNS/demonstratives Point 46 is defined as: ‘those’ as a pronoun with plural reference. Point 62: ‘those’ as a pronoun to refer to things which have already been mentioned. An iWeb search for: * * * those …

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C1, CONJUNCTIONS, emphasis, inversion, PAST, simple / affect, allow, also, but, create, did, gain, lead, not, only, provide, score

In the English Grammar Profile, C1 point 83 in PAST is defined as:  ‘NOT ONLY … BUT ALSO’ the inverted form of the past simple with auxiliary ‘do’ *Note that any type of inversion with ‘not only but also’ is C1. Our example:   Sportskeeda Not only did this affect his reputation with the fans, but also …

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