support – English Grammar Profiler

infinitive, NOUNS, VERBS / deal, ensure, evidence, help, NN, resources, support, to, tool, tools, VVI, way

Here’s the most common vocabulary in the grammar collocation of ‘noun + to-infinitive’: An iWeb search for _NN _TO _VVI 1 WAY TO GET 225421 2 WAY TO GO 139189 3 TIME TO GET 116358 4 WAY TO MAKE 110685 5 YEARS TO COME 102714 This ‘future’ time expression is unlisted in the English Vocabulary …

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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, PELIC, produce, provide, qualify, reach, realize, receive, recognize, reflect, require, respond, return, save, seem, sell, share, sound, stand, suit, support, survive, turn, VVI, win, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 73 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘might’ negative form ‘Might not + infinitive‘ means that there is a chance someone or something won’t do or happen. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: Even though she has a very good relationship with children, she might not be good at raising them. Chinese Female level 3 reading class   TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: I might not earn as much as others do. …

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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

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 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 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, uncountable / air, alcohol, attention, beauty, blood, choice, competition, control, credit, damage, detail, difficulty, effort, energy, excitement, fuel, heat, history, hope, information, interest, knowledge, liquid, material, much, NN1, oil, pain, PELIC, power, respect, sense, so, space, stress, stuff, success, support, talent, TLC, too, trouble, value, variety, weight

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 51 in the category of DETERMINERS/quantity is defined as: ‘SO MUCH’, ‘TOO MUCH’ WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS too|so much _NN1 1 SO MUCH FUN 51051 2 SO MUCH MONEY 13915 3 TOO MUCH MONEY 12901 4 TOO MUCH TROUBLE 10270 5 TOO MUCH WORK 9680 6 TOO MUCH PRESSURE 8394 7 …

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B1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity, range / action, activities, applications, areas, attention, cases, chances, choice, choices, companies, customers, energy, enough, exercise, experience, guys, ideas, information, instances, kids, loads, most, NN, of, opportunities, opportunity, options, organizations, parking, patients, PELIC, plenty, points, power, reasons, research, rest, sense, situations, space, sunshine, support, TLC, types, users, value, ways

B1 Point 43 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: increasing range of quantifying determiners with both plural nouns and uncountable nouns (‘most’, ‘enough’, ‘plenty of’, ‘loads of’). *This overlaps another B1 point. PELIC WRITING CLASS EXAMPLES: Most students eat lunch and dinner in a cafeteria. Korean, Female, Level 3   In addition, the people who lived in Korea 100 years ago didn’t have enough transportation. Korean, Male, Level 3   *Note that …

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B2, gerund, pattern, VERBS / blogging, challenging, creating, experience, exploring, gain, imagine, inform, involving, kept, P, regarding, searching, setting, solve, support, VV, VVG, waiting, 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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ADJECTIVES, B1, infinitive / access, achieve, allow, apply, avoid, consider, continue, control, create, deliver, develop, gain, increase, install, manage, necessary, operate, perform, prevent, produce, protect, prove, provide, reach, reduce, remove, replace, succeed, support

In this grammar research post, we have collected all the B1 verbs that go after necessary.

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B2, CLAUSES, comparatives, infinitive / allow, attend, beat, brave, contain, enough, figure, flexible, fortunate, gentle, handle, JJ, lucky, melt, PELIC, provide, realize, RR, smart, support, to, unfortunate, unlucky, VVI

Upper-Intermediate students can post modify ADJECTIVEs with to-infinitive