Point 66 in ADVERBS/position is defined as: ‘HARDLY’ in front position followed by an inverted subject and verb, to give focus. Point 88 in PAST/perfect simple is defined as: invert the subject and affirmative auxiliary verb with ‘hardly … when’ to talk about something that happened immediately before something else, in formal contexts. There are […]
Category: formal
have + OBJECT + INFINITIVE
Point 39 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: ‘have’ + object + infinitive without ‘to’ to talk about asking or causing someone to do something, often in formal contexts _VH _P _VV0 1 HAVE YOU BELIEVE 5396 Interesting Engineering From Scientific Research to Memes: A Brief History of the … Amazon […]
less frequent simple prepositions
Point 14 in the category of PREPOSITIONS is defined as: less frequent simple prepositions, often in a more formal, literary or business context. The examples include: amongst|unlike|throughout|upon|toward 1 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 13601 ESPN Australia Our guys have handled everything extremely well throughout the year. I think they’re going to be really excited to get […]
preposition + relative pronoun
Point 12 in the category of PREPOSITIONs is defined as: preposition + relative pronoun as complement, to avoid preposition stranding, often in formal contexts. The EGP examples include: vacancy_NN1 in_II which_DDQ I_PPIS1 am_VBM very_RG interested_JJ ._. club_NN1 of_IO which_DDQ you_PPY are_VBR the_AT secretary_NN1 ._. someone_PN1 to_II whom_PNQO they_PPHS2 can_VM talk_VVI ._. A search […]
NO SOONER + past perfect – than
Point 56 in PAST perfect simple is defined as: invert the subject and auxiliary verb with ‘no sooner … than’ to talk about something that happened immediately before something else, often in formal contexts This is quite a rare structure. 1 NO SOONER HAD HE SAID 30 2 NO SOONER HAD I FINISHED 30 3 […]
Many a NOUN
Point 65 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: ‘many a’ or ‘many an’ + singular noun for emphasis and focus. *We noticed that this phrase often gets used at the start of sentences. A search on iWeb corpus for many _at1 _nn: 1 MANY A TIME 3162 India Times Indian […]
complex prepositions
Firstly, complex prepositions are phrases, which means there are two or more words to them. Prepositional complexity is found at different levels on the English Grammar Profile and English Vocabulary Profile. Point 15 C1 in PREPOSITIONS is defined as: less frequent complex prepositions, often in a more formal, literary or business context. The two examples […]
organising opening closing phrases
Point 8 in the category of DISCOURSE MARKERS in writing is defined as a: range of phrases as discourse markers to open and close texts and point to conclusions, often in formal contexts. From the examples in the EGP searched in iWeb: The most common collocates up to 4 spaces to the right:
Do not imperative
Point 99 in the category of CLAUSES & imperatives is defined as: ‘DO NOT’ for EMPHASIS in formal contexts This is a very easy formal structure to locate in iWeb corpus: Our B1 vocabulary is in red: USE BE LET TAKE FORGET TRY 7 . DO NOT ALLOW 3455 further collocate to right DRY 211 […]
rather a + adjective
In the English Grammar Profile, Point 61 in the category of ADJECTIVES is located below in the iWeb corpus: 1 RATHER A LONG 392 Further collocates 4 to the left and right: 1 TIME (NNT1 ) 187 2 WAY (NN1 ) 46 3 AGO (RA ) 24 4 TOOK (VVD ) 16 5 TERM (NN1 […]