searching – English Grammar Profiler

B1, continuous, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, QUESTIONS / attending, avoiding, been, blogging, building, checking, coaching, collecting, considering, craving, creating, dating, designing, dreaming, experiencing, feeding, fighting, focusing, following, has, have, hiding, holding, itching, keeping, longing, meaning, missing, noticing, PELIC, performing, photographing, planning, preparing, saving, searching, selling, sewing, shooting, spending, standing, struggling, training, trying, VVG, wondering

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 31 in the category of PAST is defined: present perfect continuous: QUESTIONS with a limited range of verbs. Note that questions are generally low frequency in the CLC probably due to lack of spoken data. *Also note that there are no other entries for ‘range of verbs’ PELIC …

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B1, continuous, PAST, reason / acting, because, becoming, causing, expecting, experiencing, fighting, hoping, laughing, losing, moving, planning, searching, spending, struggling, suffering, trying, VVG, was, were, wondering

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 37 in the category of PAST/continuous  is defined: give a reason for something, often with ‘because’ PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I could not focus on my reading at all, after a while because I was sweating hard. Chinese male, level 5, writing class An iWeb search for: because * _VBD _VVG 1 BECAUSE I WAS TRYING 1574 2 BECAUSE I …

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B1, background, continuous, PAST, perfect / been, care, closely, dating, figure, for, forward, had, hoping, keeping, missing, PELIC, searching, sell, since, through, TLC, try, trying, VHD, VVG

Point 27 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect continuous: an action or event which began before a point in the past and was still continuing up to that point, often with ‘for’ or ‘since’, to give background information. Point 32 in the PAST is defined as: past perfect continuous: background action …

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B2, gerund, pattern, VERBS / blogging, challenging, creating, experience, exploring, gain, imagine, inform, involving, P, regarding, searching, setting, solve, support, VV, VVG, waste, wasting, wondering

At B2 in the English Grammar Profile, point 52 in the category of VERBS/patterns is defined as: introducing a new subject before the ‘-ing’ form (using noun or object pronoun) For example: This session is designed to stop you wasting time and procrastinating when you need to be getting an earlier night. context * The example above can also be structured: “stop you FROM wasting time” _VV _P _V*G *Notice that the ‘get/keep …

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B1, B2, CONJUNCTIONS, continuous, FOCUS, PAST, perfect, PRESENT / around, been, bothering, care, closely, figure, for, forward, growing, happening, has, have, JJ, leading, operating, over, popularity, product, providing, residents, rounds, searching, serving, since, strong, through, try, trying, VHZ, VVG, way, when

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