sufficient – English Grammar Profiler

ADJECTIVES, be, C1, CLAUSES, hedge, hedging, MODALITY / aware, certain, JJ, likely, not, probable, sufficient, sure, that, VB, XX

C1 point 197 in MODALITY/expressions with ‘be’ is defined as: HEDGING ‘be’ + ‘not’ + adjective + ‘that-‘ clause to make an assertion less direct The EGP adjectives include: ‘certain’, ‘likely’ and ‘sure’ which are all related to hedging and modality such as certainty and probability. A search in iWeb for: _VB _XX _J that_C …

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