There are at least 7 grammar points related to the negative form of ‘can’ in the category of MODALITY in the English Grammar Profile. Four of these cannot be differentiated by form alone automatically, so, therefore, will require manual interpretation. These are: Point 12 A1 can negative. Point 50 can A2: give and refuse […]
Category: A2
would (habitual past)
B2 point 160 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘would’ to talk about habitual actions and events in the past It formally overlaps A2 point 26 in MODALITY: ‘would’ to talk about imagined situations. Looking in iWeb corpus manually for collocates of ‘every’ ‘time‘ with ‘would’ is 1 in 5 on the usage: ..note, my mom […]
WOULD love prefer
Point 39 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘would’ with a wide range of verbs to talk about wishes and preferences. *’the wide range’ can be understood by the example sentences in the EGP which only contain ‘love’ and ‘prefer.’ On iWeb corpus we did a search for collocates. WOULD LOVE 1 SEE 38487 Sioux […]
It would be adjective
Point 55 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘it would be’ to make suggestions. On iWeb it would be _jj 1 IT WOULD BE NICE 50238 2 IT WOULD BE GREAT 34095 NEWS.com.au Ben Brown: North forward’s knee injury not as serious as first thought I don’t think it would be great for anyone’s knee.” […]
WILL be able to
Point 36 in MODALITY and expressions with ‘BE’ is defined as: ‘will’ + ‘be able to’ + infinitive to talk about possibility and ability. Also, see overlapping point 99. The example sentences in the EGP also contain negatives, contractions and question forms for this feature. Here are a variety of clusters on iWeb: 1 YOU […]
must not
The negative form of ‘must’ in the category of MODALITY appears at two levels. Point 21 is A2 and just general form. Point 149 is B2 and is defined: USE: RULES negative forms of ‘must’ to talk about what is not permitted. must _x _vvi 1 MUST NOT EXCEED 5621 2 MUST NOT USE 3904 […]
Be able allowed to
Point 99 in Modality and expressions with be is defined as: a limited range of expressions with ‘be’ + infinitive (‘be allowed to’, ‘be supposed to’, ‘be able to’) with present and past forms of ‘be’ and with modal ‘will’ ‘Supposed’ overlaps in B2 also. There is also some overlap with 106 in Modality ‘Plan’. […]
You have (got) to
B2 Point 131 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘you have (got) to’ to make a strong suggestion. Because the ‘have (got) to structure is found at lower levels too, it is hard to find this formally and because it requires interpretation (not obligation). This structure is found with a great deal of […]
There is + uncountable noun
Which uncountable nouns should I learn with “there is”?
Maybe
Maybe A1 maybe A2.