years – English Grammar Profiler

ADVERBS, FUTURE, MODALITY, NEGATIVE, time / a, for, hours, JJ, little, long, marry, NNT1, not, tell, time, week, while, whole, will, years, yet

In the English Vocabulary Profile at C1, YET from now and for a particular period of time in the future A search in the NOW corpus for: for a _JJ _NNT yet 1 FOR A LONG TIME YET 605 I‘m not gonna die for a long time yet. The Babadook 2 FOR A LITTLE WHILE YET 197 Dinner won’t be ready for a little while yet. Little Deaths 3 …

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B1, indefinite, PAST, perfect, PRESENT, simple, time / changed, developed, grown, has, have, increased, NNT1, PELIC, recent, this, today, VVN, week, year, years

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 20 in the category of PAST is defined: present perfect simple: UNFINISHED refer to a state or period of time which is unlimited or indefinite. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I have already gotten several wrong numbers this month. Japanese female level 4 grammar class   EXPERT EXAMPLES: It‘s been proven to me time and time again as people have walked up to me this week  simply because of what I‘m wearing, and we‘ve had great conversations. …

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