wonder – 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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NOUNS, phrases, predicate, subject / bonus, cause, concern, disaster, exception, factor, genius, idiot, inspiration, lifestyle, miracle, myth, necessity, NN, no, norm, priority, process, revelation, VB, wonder, _A, _P

It is easy to find noun phrases functioning as a subject-predicate in a clause.  For example, “I was a kid.” ‘a kid’ is a noun phrase after the copular verb ‘was.’ An iWeb search for: _P _VB _A _NN . 1 I WAS A KID . 7523 2 I WAS A CHILD . 2942 3 …

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B1, cause, infinitive, pattern, permission, VERBS / add, appear, application, buyer, consider, dry, dust, everyone, explain, fool, happen, imagination, imaginations, introduce, kids, laugh, let, letting, make, PELIC, pray, public, reader, readers, realize, rest, rise, seem, shine, skin, smile, soak, sound, stand, user, voice, VVI, wonder

Let’s look at an active voice structure that means: (MAKE) to force or cause someone to do something (often they do not want to do it) (LET)  to allow, make something possible or give permission In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 30 in the category of VERBs/patterns is defined as: ‘MAKE’, ‘LET’ + INFINITIVE …

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C1, CLAUSES, cleft, FOCUS, NOUNS / discovered, N, noticed, recommend, suggest, VB, what, wonder

Point 53 in NOUNS/phrase is defined as: complex noun phrases with ‘wh-‘ cleft clauses, followed by ‘be’, to give focus. A search in iWeb: . What _P _V _VB 1 . WHAT I MEAN IS 3278 2 . WHAT I DID WAS 1894 3 . WHAT I DO IS 1716 4 . WHAT WE NEED …

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auxiliary, B2, MODALITY, semi, VERBS / apply, consider, dare, fear, need, PELIC, prove, provide, VVI, wonder, XX

This is another overlapping B2 grammar point found in a few different places in the English Grammar Profile. Point 47 in VERBS is defined as semi-modal auxiliary verbs, ‘dare’ and ‘need’. The two examples are both in the negative. And the comments in the EGP are very interesting for this point: LOW FREQUENCY ITEM. There …

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