suit – English Grammar Profiler

B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, become, believe, bother, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, cover, exist, expect, fall, fit, happen, hold, hurt, include, keep, lead, let, match, matter, mean, might, mind, not, notice, occur, offer, pass, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, require, respond, return, save, seem, sell, share, sound, stand, suit, support, survive, turn, VVI, win, XX

Point 73 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘might’ negative form TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: I might not earn as much as others do. female India B1 An iWeb search for: might _XX _VVI 1 MIGHT NOT KNOW 12293 2 MIGHT NOT WANT 9556 3 MIGHT NOT WORK 8820 4 MIGHT NOT GET 8374 5 MIGHT NOT SEEM 7198 6 …

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B1, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / accept, add, affect, agree, allow, appeal, appear, apply, appreciate, assign, become, believe, bring, care, cause, consider, contain, copy, cover, display, enter, exceed, exist, experience, fit, function, happen, hold, include, lead, match, matter, may, mean, modify, not, notice, occur, offer, operate, participate, PELIC, perform, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, remove, represent, require, respond, result, return, seem, sell, serve, share, sound, suit, support, survive, transfer, turn, VM, VVI, wish, XX

Point 94 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘may’ negative PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: However, you may not deny that you can not buy happiness even if you have too much money. Korean male, level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: may_VM not _V*I 1 MAY NOT KNOW 28529 2 MAY NOT WORK 22681 3 MAY NOT WANT 17165 4 MAY NOT USE 14983 5 MAY NOT …

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A2, complements, indefinite, object, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, subject / across, against, alone, among, around, believe, bring, by, call, calling, everybody, everyone, hope, hoping, hurt, II, including, keep, keeping, kill, let, mean, means, off, over, PELIC, plus, PN1, somebody, someone, suit, thank, through, V, wish, without

Here’s a student example of the indefinite pronoun ‘everyone’ in the subject position with a singular verb: Everyone knows Istanbul. PELIC Turkish male level 3 writing class. The indefinite pronouns: ‘SOMEBODY’, ‘SOMEONE’, ‘EVERYBODY’ and ‘EVERYONE’ are all listed at A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile.  As far as CEFR level allocation, it doesn’t make any difference …

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