walk – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Vocabulary Profile: take = GO WITH SOMEONE A1 to go somewhere with someone, often paying for them or being responsible for them walk sb home/to sth B1 to walk with someone in order to guide them or keep them safe However, we would argue that the complexity differences are not that clear or …

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While searching for structures in the English Vocabulary Profile, we sometimes find structures we are not sure why they are listed at a certain complexity.  For example: walk NOUN A2 a journey that you make by walking, often for enjoyment a short/ten-minute, etc. walk = B2 a journey that takes a short time/ten minutes, etc. …

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In the English Grammar Profile, A1 point 2 in the category of NOUNS is defined as: noun phrases as objects of the clause. Most of the following ranked results contain: A pronoun as the noun phrase subject + a lexical verb + a direct object noun phrase. A search in iWeb corpus for: _P _VV _A …

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