struck – English Grammar Profiler

ADVERBS, B1, habitual, PAST, simple / always, assumed, beyond, bit, extra, happened, idea, if, impression, just, laugh, look out, mile, myself, odd, PELIC, point, reminded, seemed, so, stood, struck, VVD, weird, wondered

Point 25 in the category of PAST simple  is defined as: habitual states or actions. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: They always went back late. Chinese male, level 3, writing class. Both examples in the EGP follow the pattern ‘always + past simple verb’ An iWeb search for: always _VVD * * * 1 ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE 680 …

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A2, B1, FOCUS, PASSIVES / accessed, accompanied, adding, amazed, ambulance, amended, amount, appointed, approved, attended, based, bias, bound, by, calculated, calling, caused, clicking, compensated, completed, complicated, considered, contacting, council, created, destroyed, determined, disabled, dividing, enabled, explained, fact, fire, funded, governed, higher, hit, inserting, law, laws, meant, national, news, notified, obtained, out, owned, PELIC, pitch, president, protected, punished, ranked, reached, reduced, regarded, replaced, required, results, selected, size, southern, striking, struck, succeeded, supported, surprised, survived, term, terms, variety, VB, vehicle, virus, VVN, widow

A2 point 2 in the category of PASSIVES : ‘BY’ to add information about something already known. B1 point 12 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: passive with ‘by’ to give focus. *note any use of ‘by’ is at least A2 in the EVP. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: All Chinese fields are owned by the Chinese government. Chinese female Level 3 …

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