whether – English Grammar Profiler

Complexity Checker, research / can, considered, deeply, example, forget, found, further, go, know, may, must, not, play, role, rooted, say, speak, take, tempted, we, whether, wonder, would

In this post, we put common lexical bundles that French EFL students use in their writing, through our GRAMMAR PROFILER.  Magali Paquot wrote a paper about Lexical bundles.  Here are the significant forms found in the ICLE – FR: Here are our expert examples: You‘ll be tempted to tear it off. listen They may never be considered as such by religion, but they are just as important as the ones in your textbooks. listen Kaleb‘s art can be viewed as deeply rooted in the pop minimalism of Aureur or Baer. …

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B1, CLAUSES, PRONOUNS, QUESTIONS, REPORTED SPEECH, tense / ask, could, if, P, PELIC, V, were, whether, wish

B1 English Grammar Profile point 5 in REPORTED SPEECH is defined as: ‘YES-NO’ QUESTIONS using ‘ask’ + ‘if’ or ‘whether’ + clause, with a pronoun and tense shift where relevant. A search in iWeb for: ask* * if|whether _P _V 1 ASKED ME IF I WANTED 2391 2 ASKED ME IF I WAS 2083 3 …

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The ‘whether or not’ structure means ‘it is not important which possibility is true’.  Here’s an expert example of using ‘whether + clause + or not, + clause’: Whether we like it or not, motivation comes and motivation goes. TED The English Grammar Profile C2 point 130 in CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: ‘WHETHER OR NOT’, to introduce conditions in formal contexts. Pearson lists this at …

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A2, ADVERBS, B1, CLAUSES, CONJUNCTIONS, DISCOURSE MARKERS, informal, linking, modify, sentence, summarise / after, also, although, as, before, however, PELIC, since, so, though, until, whether

In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 19 in the category of ADVERBS is defined as: LINKING limited range of adverbs (‘also’, ‘so’, ‘however’) to show a relationship between two clauses or sentences. The EGP examples: I_PPIS1 also_RR bought_VVD ,_, so_CS I_PPIS1 decided_VVD However_RR ,_, the_AT clothes_NN2 were_VBDR cheap_JJ ._. Point in 2 A2 DISCOURSE …

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B2, CLAUSES, complements, formal, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, relative, stranding / appear, attention, DDQ, despite, environment, II, in, IO, limit, none, of, operate, operates, PNQO, position, purpose, purposes, sense, society, to, track, what, whatever, wherever, whether, which, whom

Wh-relatives can be preceded by a preposition unlike ‘that’ or ‘zero’ relatives.  For example: This is the thing which I am interested in.  (stranded preposition) This is the thing in which I am interested. (fronted preposition) This is the thing that I am interested in. (stranding) This is the thing I am interested in. (‘zero’ relative pronoun and stranding) In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 12 in the category of PREPOSITIONs is defined as: preposition + relative pronoun as complement, to …

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