Point 12 in the category of REPORTED SPEECH for CITATION is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE of the reporting verb to report information from a written source and a present tense verb in the reported clause. We can start our search with advert*|*book|report|article|story|journal|it says|tells PELIC STUDENTS: 3129,fx9,Japanese,Female,175,5,w,374,1,30, This is a thesis statement. It says […]
This post is another one where the English Grammar Profile has clashing proficiency levels associated with a point and in the examples. Here we are looking at the category of QUESTIONS. It is understandable that usage is what is different, but the examples could be better selected: B2 Point 29: ‘wh-‘words + the negative form […]
Point 28 in QUESTIONS is defined as: affirmative or negative tag after an imperative clause to soften the imperative. *Some examples don’t seem to soften but instead add a touch of sarcasm. iWeb doesn’t allow searching for such a complex string. We can start with getting , _vm _p ? 1 , SHALL WE? 8052 […]
Point 97 in PRONOUNS is defined as: possessive ‘THEIRS’ with singular and plural reference, in object positions, and complement positions after ‘be’ and after prepositions. An iWeb search for * * * * theirs . : 1 YOUR PROBLEM , NOT THEIRS . 31 2 . THE CHOICE IS THEIRS . 27 3 BE THE […]
Point 96 in PRONOUNS is defined as: possessive pronoun ‘hers’, with singular reference, in object positions, and complement positions after ‘be’ and after prepositions. In iWeb: * * _vb hers 1 THE CHOICE IS HERS 28 BabyGaga What To Do If Someone Announced Your Pregnancy Before You Were Ready The choice is hers to […]
Point 95 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: ‘ ‘it’ as an object with ‘make’ to introduce something the speaker or writer is going to refer to. The 2 examples in the EGP follow the structure make|makes it _jj for *although the following adjective might get incorrectly tagged as an adverb. 1 […]
Point 94 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: plural reflexive pronouns after prepositions where the object of the preposition is the same as the subject of the verb. *Note this point is practically already covered in B2 Point 80, and the complexity checker may highlight B2 point 74 for ‘yourselves’ for politeness, also. […]
Point 93 in the category of PRONOUNS / reflexive is defined as singular pronoun ‘itself’ for emphasis. An iWeb search for _nn1 itself: 1 GAME ITSELF 15067 2 LIFE ITSELF 10893 3 CITY ITSELF 7443 4 SYSTEM ITSELF 7390 5 PROCESS ITSELF 7192 6 PRODUCT ITSELF 6909 7 BUILDING ITSELF 5512 8 DEVICE ITSELF 4694 […]
Point 92 in PRONOUNS is defined as: full range of indefinite pronouns as subjects, with a singular verb. A search inWeb for: . nothing|everybody|everywhere|anything _v And PELIC B2 student examples: 1 . NOTHING IS 18676 25027,ar9,Chinese,Male,529,4,w,3285,1,566 We can lie on the meadow and breathed fresh air. Nothing is better than this. 2 . NOTHING WAS […]
Point 91 in PRONOUNS is defined as: ‘ONE’ as a generic personal pronoun in the subject position to mean people in general. A search in iWeb corpus for . one_p _v we get the following: There are only 2 examples in the first 2000 texts in PELIC: 1 . ONE IS 49191 1713,ei2,Chinese,Female,115,4,w,148,1,522 There are […]