yourself – English Grammar Profiler
Uncategorized / advice, albums, art, best, busiest, cloudiest, company, customer, fullest, highest, JJT, latest, level, levels, NN, of, piece, software, songs, truest, type, views, way, wet, whole, worst, yourself
Point 7 in the category of ADJECTIVES: limited range of prepositional phrases with ‘of’ after a superlative adjective, to refer to one thing within a set or part of a set. TLC SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: What’s the best type of music? male Mexico B1 A search in iWeb for: _JJT _NN of * * 1 BEST INTERESTS …
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advice, B1, MODALITY, polite, suggestion / ABLE, add, avoid, aware, away, bring, by, check, consider, create, even, expect, familiar, guessed, include, interested, just, keep, might, need, noticed, off, reconsider, surprised, talk, tempted, try, want, wondering, you, yourself
Point 92 in MODALITY: ‘might’ to make polite suggestions and give advice. We cannot automatically check a corpus for usage, but we can follow the EGP examples which both contain the pronoun ‘you’. An iWeb search for: You might * * * 1 YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO 32578 You might be able to use a hammer …
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A2, B1, PRONOUNS, range, reflexive, singular, VERBS / allow, bring, buy, call, calls, challenge, consider, defend, enjoy, herself, himself, imagine, introduce, itself, keep, kill, killed, lend, lends, let, limit, lose, myself, PELIC, position, PPX1, prepare, protect, prove, push, remind, save, set, setting, surround, TLC, V, yourself
B1 Point 55 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: increasing range of singular reflexive pronouns with an increasing range of verbs to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. A2 Point 12: range of singular reflexive pronouns (‘myself’, ‘yourself’) with a limited range of verbs (‘enjoy’, …
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B1, PREPOSITIONS, PRONOUNS, reflexive, singular / ahead, allow, ashamed, bit, bring, by, care, check, consider, could, decide, describe, ever, experience, fool, happen, herself, himself, honest, I, if, information, introduce, itself, judge, just, keep, let, might, myself, opportunity, order, out, owe, PELIC, PPX1, protect, remind, save, should, so, still, top, true, try, upon, way, yourself
There are three very similar B1 points in the English Grammar Profile in the Category of PRONOUNS/singular reflexive Point 45 is defined as: ‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘himself’ and ‘herself’ after prepositions where the object of the preposition is the same as the subject of the verb. Point 65 is: ‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘himself’ and ‘herself’ for emphasis. …
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alternative, B1, CLAUSES, QUESTIONS / alone, already, art, broken, confused, crazy, disagree, dreaming, else, explode, false, guessing, impossible, let, matter, mine, murder, myself, normal, or, out, P, permanent, pushed, real, separate, should, true, try, V, worse, yourself
Point 27 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as: alternative questions with two clauses combined with ‘or’. A search in iWeb for or _V _P * ? 1 OR AM I WRONG ? 621 2 OR DOES IT MATTER? 287 Villanovan Alumnus Brad Ingelsby Talks Series “Mare of Easttown” Do you view all these changes in entertainment as good or bad, or …
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B1, CLAUSES, conditional, FUTURE, MODALITY, possibility, PRESENT, result, simple / add, become, build, check, click, decide, happen, if, information, keep, mind, mistake, PELIC, plan, prefer, save, try, VM, wish, yourself
B1 Point 74 in CLAUSES/conditional is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE ‘IF’ CLAUSE + MODAL, FUTURE, POSSIBLE OUTCOME: introduce a possible future condition, with modal verbs in the main clause, to talk about a possible result. *This point should mention which modal verbs. Because the use of ‘can’ is A2. The use of ‘will’ is also …
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auxiliary, B1, CLAUSES, interrogatives, QUESTIONS, subject, VERBS / happened, happens, so, VV, yourself
Point 67 in the category of CLAUSES/interrogatives is defined as: questions with a ‘wh-‘ word as subject, without an auxiliary verb. For example: Now what happens? A search on iWeb for: . Wh* _VV * ? 1 . WHAT WENT WRONG ? 511 2 . WHAT HAPPENS NEXT ? 437 3 . WHAT SAY YOU ? 411 …
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B1, CLAUSES, pattern, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, REPORTED SPEECH, VERBS / anyone, everyone, god, herself, himself, II, myself, ourselves, said, say, saying, says, someone, that, themselves, to, yourself
Point 36 in the category of VERBs is defined as: verb pattern / reporting verb with prepositional phrase + that clause as the direct object A search in iWeb for: SAY to_II * that 1 SAID TO ME THAT 2340 2 SAY TO YOU THAT 1483 3 SAYS TO ME THAT 794 4 SAY TO …
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A2, ADJECTIVES, modify, phrases, PREPOSITIONS, range / accident, around, available, blood, call, corner, dead, download, fact, fit, free, front, full, further, heavy, high, idea, II, JJ, largest, low, luck, market, middle, N, open, pleased, public, rich, sale, size, strong, the, TLC, to, too, true, variety, way, web, yourself
There is overlap between these two A2 English Grammar Profile points: Point 6 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined: ‘too’ + adjective + prepositional phrase Point 28 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases with a very limited range of adjectives + a prepositional phrase. The EGP examples for range are: …
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B2, emphasis, object, pattern, sense, VERBS / becoming, feel, happening, hear, moving, myself, N, P, PELIC, posting, see, smell, someone, spending, standing, taste, trying, VV, VVG, yourself
B2 point 54 in VERBS/patterns is defined as: some verbs connected with the senses + direct object + an ‘-ing’ form, to give emphasis to an ongoing activity. *I don’t believe B2 complexity should hinge on ‘activity’. It should also include a state. For example: I don’t see myself being with anyone else but you, Sarah. listen An iWeb search for: sense verbs …
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