In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 87 in the category of CLAUSES and related to imperatives is ‘let’s not’ + base form of a main verb to make a suggestion. 1 LET’S NOT FORGET 13135 1 LET’S NOT FORGET THAT THIS IS 65 The following are similar to saying “don’t forget to” but it […]
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 86 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: phrases or exclamations where the negative interrogative form of an auxiliary verb is used to express surprise or enthusiasm. This is a real challenge to search for. Surprise and enthusiasm are not something you can formally search for, but
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1 THAT 104319150 2 IF 44943385 3 AS 40335107 4 WHEN 23770025 5 THAN 17558900 6 BECAUSE 11714883 7 WHILE 10802203 8 SO 9458497 9 WHERE 6843020 10 SINCE 5476245 11 AFTER 4593163 12 THOUGH 4176607 13 UNTIL 4071103 14 WHETHER 3951156 15 BEFORE 3363516 16 ALTHOUGH 3070810 17 EVEN 2778946 18 ONCE 2007651 19
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Subordinating conjunctions for upper-intermediate students.
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In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 57 in the category of ADVERBs is defined as: degree adverbs to modify noun phrases. ‘Quite, rather and almost’ are found in the given example sentences, so we have examined them in the iWeb corpus: 1 QUITE A BIT 60525 ‘quite a bit’ is listed at B1 in
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