surprised – English Grammar Profiler

A2, MODALITY, NEGATIVE / ABLE, call, case, complete, cool, enough, fair, if, not, out, PELIC, so, such, surprise, surprised, take, without, would, XX

Point 15 in MODALITY is defined: would negative forms *It is incredibly hard to find an example that is not already a part of another grammar point. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I’m convinced that it wouldn’t take much time to change the system  and think about how to add new things  in order to help people to start the workday in a more enjoyable manner. French male level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: would _XX * * * 1 WOULD NOT BE …

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advice, B1, MODALITY, polite, suggestion / ABLE, add, avoid, aware, away, bring, by, check, consider, create, even, expect, familiar, guessed, include, interested, just, keep, might, need, noticed, off, reconsider, surprised, talk, tempted, try, want, wondering, you, yourself

Point 92 in MODALITY: ‘might’ to make polite suggestions and give advice. We cannot automatically check a corpus for usage, but we can follow the EGP examples which both contain the pronoun ‘you’. An iWeb search for: You might * * * 1 YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO 32578 You might be able to use a hammer …

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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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A2, ADJECTIVES, range / afraid, amazing, available, careful, clear, complete, correct, free, full, interested, JJ, PELIC, perfect, simple, sure, surprised, true, useful, VB

Point 16 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: increasing range of adjectives predicatively, after ‘be’. A search on iWeb for _VB _JJ 1 BE SURE 833740 2 IS AVAILABLE 810530 3 ARE AVAILABLE 797442 4 IS IMPORTANT 780459 5 IS ONLY 690395 6 IS GOOD 427370 7 BE AVAILABLE 424771 8 IS GREAT 412719 9 IS …

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