Point 63 in the category of PAST is defined as: past simple B2 1 NEGATIVE wide range of regular and irregular verbs. This point is very much about vocabulary and so probably doubles up on using the English vocabulary profile. How do we divide the range up better than looking for B1 and above verbs? […]
Point 62 in category of PAST is defined as: a range of time adjuncts with the past simple. This is quite ambiguous as to what constitutes this in the EGP exactly. The examples all include a past simple verb and a time word but often with lots of words between, which makes it hard to […]
Point 61 in the category of PAST is defined as: negative form of the present perfect simple with ‘still’ to emphasise that something that was expected to happen continues not to happen. still have|has _xx _vvn 1 STILL HAVE N’T FOUND 1847 2 STILL HAVE N’T GOTTEN 1201 3 STILL HAVE N’T SEEN 1116 4 […]
Point 60 in the category of PAST is defined as: past continuous to make a request or suggestions more polite or less direct. 1 I WAS WONDERING IF THERE IS A 875 2 I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WAS A 848 3 I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAD ANY 723 4 I WAS WONDERING […]
Point 59 in PAST is past perfect simple AFTER ‘BECAUSE’ giving explanatory information. 1 BECAUSE I HAD HEARD 519 2 BECAUSE I HAD SEEN 376 3 BECAUSE I HAD READ 372 4 BECAUSE IT HAD BECOME 282 5 BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN 222 6 BECAUSE HE HAD LOST 201 7 BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD 200 […]
Point 58 in the category of PAST is past perfect continuous negative. 1 HAD NOT BEEN DRINKING 180 Kankakee Daily Journal Canfield said he had not been drinking. Canfield called 911 a third time to report the neighbor was back home. 2 HAD NOT BEEN WORKING 144 3 HAD NOT BEEN WEARING 124 4 […]
Point 57 in the category of past and perfect simple is defined as: REPORTS OF QUESTIONS where the main verb in the reporting clause is in the past simple. There are low numbers for this point. _vvd * ask ***** had _vvn 1 BEGAN TO ASK HIM HOW HE HAD RECEIVED 4 Patheos Then […]
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 […]
Point 55 in PAST simple after ‘if’ as a politeness structure, especially in letters and emails. All the examples given in the EGP follow the structure: would be (_rg) _JJ _CS * _VVD Sadly, iWeb corpus software does not allow the above search because it is too wide for their software. Searching for collocates to […]
Point 54 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect simple with a wide range of adverbs (including ‘finally’, ‘recently’, ‘simply’) in the normal mid-position. (no examples of ‘simply’ in the top 100) 1 HAD NEVER SEEN 18665 2 HAD NEVER HEARD 17344 3 HAD EVER SEEN 11107 4 HAD JUST FINISHED 6260 […]