Here are advanced examples of verbs + ‘WITH phrases‘: You hope for the best, then make do with what you get. listen A man threatens you with a gun, you break his neck, we can’t call the police, but it‘s nothing to do with me. listen DO WITH 796814 To find out which lexical verbs are most often followed by a ‘with PHRASE‘, we do a search in the iWeb corpus for: _VV with 1 WORK WITH 976989 A1 verb […]
In the English Vocabulary Profile: begin verb START TO HAPPEN A1 begin verb START TO DO A2 begin with sth B1 to begin with B1: at the start of a situation to begin with B2: the first important reason for something A2: Look, son, I can’t even begin to tell you how proud of you I‘ve been these past weeks. listen B1: Let’s begin with where you were born. listen B2 grammar:
A discourse marker is a word or phrase that is used to connect sentences and paragraphs, and to signal the relationship between ideas. They are often used in formal contexts, such as academic writing or business reports. Some common discourse markers that are used to open and close texts include: To open a text: In
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