Point 6 in VERBS/patterns is defined as: limited range of verbs followed by a ‘to’- infinitive. iWeb search for like|want to _VVI 1 WANT TO MAKE 269952 PELIC STUDENTS: Chinese,Female,4,w I strongly recommend finding a conversation partner if you want to make your foreign language just like your native language! *Note it is very hard to find this grammar, not ‘hidden’ under higher-level grammar. 2 WANT TO GET 237967 Japanese,Female,3,w […]
Point 45 in VERBS is defined as: follow some verbs with a ‘to’-infinitive or an ‘-ing’ form, with a change in meaning. *The verbs in the EGP examples are ‘remember’ and ‘stop’. It is interesting that that top 25 ‘remember’ are all in the base/infinitive form for remember. Where as ‘stop’ has a few past […]
Point 212 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘be’ + ‘not’ + adjective + ‘to’ + infinitive a search on iWeb for: _VB _XX _JJ _TO _VVI 1 ‘S NOT HARD TO SEE 3537 2 IS NOT UNCOMMON TO SEE 1640 3 ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE 1248 4 ‘S NOT UNCOMMON TO […]
Point 14 in REPORTED SPEECH is defined as: ‘ask’ or ‘tell’ + direct object + ‘not’ + ‘to-‘infinitive. An iWeb search for told|asked _p not to _v: *all the examples from PELIC students are embedded below: 1 TOLD ME NOT TO WORRY 940 2 TOLD HER NOT TO WORRY 282 2815,ci3,Taiwanese,Female,171,4,w,321,1,383 My mom gave […]
This grammar entry is very broad. Point 29 in the category of PASSIVES and INFINITIVE is defined as: affirmative and negative forms after an increasing range of main verbs, modal verbs, adjectives and nouns, in impersonal constructions. All the range entries in the English Grammar Profile are left to interpretation and not so clear. For […]
Point 24 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as ‘get’ + object + ‘to’-infinitive to talk about causing someone to do something. This is clearly a much rarer structure to find based on the low counts for these clusters seen in corpora. On the left we have matches for the criteria on iWeb through […]
1 TO (TO) 240771826 2 TO (II) 124459804 3 TO (II22) 11440980 5 TO (II33) 2184195 6 TO (RG22) 1805634 13 TO (RR43) 192520 14 TO (JJ32) 162910 18 TO (REX43) 32310 19 TO (II44) 26350 27 TO (RL31) 8392 32 TO (JJ42) 2944
In this grammar research post, we have collected all the B1 verbs that go after necessary.
Point 4 in the category of passives is defined as: an infinitive after a limited number of forms including ‘going to’, ‘have to’, ‘need to’, ‘want to’. We did a very open search for _v to be _vvn on iWeb corpus, so many of the listed below do no meet our criteria. 1 REMAINS TO […]
Point 129 in the category of MODALITY expressions with be is defined as: ‘ be sure to’, ‘be certain to’ to talk about certainty. Some of this point also overlaps with point 148 in Modality imperative obligation. It is easy to see below that ‘Be’ is very common. It also overlaps Point 152 MODALITY the […]