seeking – English Grammar Profiler

continuous, gerund, non-finite / causing, seeking, VVG

On this website, ing forms are best located in our posts by searching for the tag: VVG A search in the iWeb corpus for _VVG gives the most common ing forms as follows: 1 USING 9077632 2 GOING 8570578 3 MAKING 4986719 4 LOOKING 4903064 5 WORKING 4440144 6 GETTING 4427697 7 TAKING 3186185 8 …

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CLAUSES, defining, reduced, relative / a, know, making, NN, person, requesting, seeking, signing, the, VVG

Pearson’s GSE 56 B1+ is defined: “reduced” defining (restrictive) relative clauses with verb +-ing. This point will overlap: verb of senses + object + verbing This is difficult grammar to find in corpora since many other structures get caught.  We have done a search with a full stop to narrow out questions.  Our search string …

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B1, continuous, FUTURE, NEGATIVE / accepting, adding, appearing, attending, BE, bringing, commenting, competing, covering, expecting, fighting, happening, holding, joining, losing, missing, moving, not, offering, operating, ordering, participating, performing, posting, providing, purchasing, receiving, releasing, renewing, replacing, returning, seeking, selling, spending, trying, VM, VVG, wasting, will, winning, XX

Point 32 in the category of FUTURE is defined: future continuous NEGATIVE WITH ‘WILL’ (won’t) An iWeb search for: wo|will _X be _VVG 1 WO N’T BE GETTING 2959 2 WO N’T BE GOING 2821 3 WO N’T BE USING 2817 4 WILL NOT BE USING 2040 5 WO N’T BE MAKING 1550 6 WILL …

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C1, continuous, expectation, FUTURE, MODALITY / affecting, BE, causing, contributing, divorce, getting, heading, lacking, may, might, occurring, seeking, struggling, suffering, VVG

C1 English Grammar point 65 in future is defined as: EXPECTATIONS WITH ‘MIGHT’ OR ‘MAY’ potentially in progress at a specified or understood time in the future. A search in iWeb: might|may_V be _VVG *Not all of these are about the future.   1 MAY BE WONDERING 10730 2 MAY BE LOOKING 8324 3 MIGHT BE …

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