verb + verb-ING – English Grammar Profiler

Here are two points in the English Grammar Profile in the category of Verb patterns that depend on vocabulary range:

Point 29 is B1 and defined as:

a limited range of verbs followed by an ‘-ing’ form.

Point 56 is B2 and is defined as:

an increasing range of verbs followed by an ‘-ing’ form.

In addition, these are hard to differentiate from:

Point 22 in the category of NOUNS at A2 which is defined as:

‘-ing’ forms of verbs as nouns, in object position, to refer to activities.

For this reason, it is easier to just depend on the English Vocabulary Profile to help differentiate CEFR levels.

A search for _VV _VVG in iWeb corpus:

1 KEEP GOING 65601 

The following example is C2:

Why do you keep going on about it?

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2 STARTED USING 54040 A2?

People from around the world started using our service.

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3 RECOMMEND USING 51031 B2?

1 WE RECOMMEND USING ONE OF 182

Tom’s Guide

We recommend using one of the best password managers to create and handle all those new passwords.

2 WE RECOMMEND USING THE FOLLOWING 111

3 WE RECOMMEND USING THE LATEST 110

4 STARTED WORKING 446675 START USING 444026 CONTINUE READING 381837 TRY USING 356318 START WORKING 342069 MADE USING 3390010 CONSIDER USING 3373811 START MAKING 3280912 START LOOKING 3124313 STARTED PLAYING 2978614 START GETTING 2856715 STOP USING 2759216 GET GOING 2733017 KEEP GETTING 2722618 AVOID USING 2719319 START THINKING 2636920 STARTED GETTING 2585521 KEEP COMING 2537122 STARTED TAKING 2452023 STARTED MAKING 2414124 BEGAN WORKING 2374925 KEEP TRYING 2354026 CREATED USING 2328027 KEEP WORKING 2198528 START TAKING 2160329 STOPPED WORKING 2148030 START PLAYING 2013331 KEEP READING 1994932 STARTED LOOKING 1983733 STOP TAKING 1947034 TRIED USING 1908335 CONTINUE WORKING 1899836 AVOID GETTING 1889837 KEEP MOVING 18814

38 STOP WORKING 17902

39 ENJOY WORKING 15550 A2

40 STARTED TALKING 1542941 GO SHOPPING 1535742 CONTINUE USING 15303

43 START TALKING 15163

44 LOVE SEEING 14559 A2

45 START BUILDING 1446546 STARTED WRITING 1436347 KEPT GOING 1435348 SUGGEST USING 1430049 CONSIDER TAKING 1418550 REMEMBER SEEING 1413751 LOVE USING 1376252 CONSIDER ADDING 1372253 BUILT USING 1365554 KEEP LOOKING 1363455 KEEP USING 1341556 STARTED GOING 1310057 TRY ADDING 1294058 ENJOYED READING 1292759 CALCULATED USING 1288660 START PLANNING 1286761 TRY MAKING 1274762 LOVE WORKING 1270163 RECOMMEND GETTING 1270064 STARTED READING 1266165 START SEEING 1253866 STOPPED USING 1245967 KEEP PLAYING 1238968 KEEPS GETTING 1236369 ENJOY PLAYING 1235370 WENT MISSING 1210471 CONSIDER GETTING 1206472 ENJOY READING 1188673 REMEMBER READING 1185474 CONSIDER MAKING 1170975 STARTED THINKING 1165476 RECOMMEND TAKING 1156677 KEEP CHECKING 1138178 ENJOY WATCHING 1116479 STOP TRYING 1114280 BEGAN USING 1108381 KEPT GETTING 1081882 AVOID PAYING 1080383 LOVE MAKING 1075484 STOP MAKING 1071885 EXPERIENCE WORKING 1067786 LIKE USING 1065787 KEPT COMING 1058088 STOP TALKING 1057989 STOP THINKING 1015790 KEEP MAKING 1008191 KEPT SAYING 988892 AVOID MAKING 976693 LOVE PLAYING 976594 CONSIDER BUYING 974595 KEEP PUSHING 954596 LOVE READING 947997 STOP PLAYING 942598 RECOMMEND GOING 939099 KEEP TELLING 9344

100 GET MOVING 9324

A2 vocabulary:

adding, building, built, checking, keep, keeps, kept, missing, moving, pushing, tried, try, trying

B1:

avoid, consider, continue, created, experience, planning, recommend, suggest