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modal verb (question)

A2, CLAUSES, interrogatives, MODALITY, QUESTIONS / add, anyone, apply, believe, can, consider, cost, could, decide, describe, expect, explain, guess, imagine, like, mind, prefer, provide, receive, recommend, shall, share, should, someone, suggest, VM, VVI, will, wish, would

Here are more overlapping points across the English Grammar Profile. We have included their examples when needed too elaborate: A2 point 14 in CLAUSES: AFFIRMATIVE interrogative clauses (‘yes/no’ forms) with modal auxiliary verbs. Would you like to come with me? Will you go with me? Can I come tomorrow to collect it? (Can you|we…? is listed at A1) Shall we meet at 7.30 pm? (Here are …

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COULD (range)

A2, ability, affirmative, B1, MODALITY, range, suggestion, VERBS / add, allow, apply, argue, become, benefit, bring, build, call, care, consider, continue, cost, could, create, cut, explain, fall, fit, handle, happen, hold, imagine, improve, include, increase, keep, lead, lose, mean, move, offer, pick, produce, prove, provide, pull, reach, receive, reduce, result, save, sell, serve, set, share, spend, stand, try, turn, VM, VVI, win, work, XX

A2 point 52 in MODALITY: ‘could’ with a limited range of verbs to make suggestions. A2 point 27 in MODALITY: negative form B1 point 78 in MODALITY: affirmative form of ‘could’ to talk about ability. B1 point 79 in MODALITY: ‘could’ with an increasing range of verbs to make suggestions. An iWeb search for: could …

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am|is|are + going + to-INFINITVE (future)

A2, affirmative, B1, FUTURE, intention, plan, prediction, QUESTIONS, range, VERBS / am, anything, are, become, continue, cost, do, going, happen, is, keep, PELIC, take, time, to, try, VB, VVI, win

Here are two examples of ‘BE going to’ with A1 infinitives: It is going to take time. Listen to the pronunciation Are you going to do anything about it? Listen to the pronunciation In the English Grammar Profile, in the category of FUTURE: B1 Point 31 is defined: ‘be going to’: increasing range of verbs to make predictions. A2 point 4 is defined: …

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future in the past

B1, expectation, FUTURE, GSE, PAST, plan / add, become, break, bring, build, but, call, continue, cost, cover, create, explode, fall, focus, happen, hit, keep, kill, let, lose, marry, move, pass, PELIC, pick, sell, shoot, spend, suggest, thought, throw, to, try, turn, VBD, VVGK, was, were, win

The English Grammar Profile (EGP) B1 point 23 in the category of future is defined: past form of ‘be’ + ‘going to’ (future in the past) EGP B1 point 36 in FUTURE is defined: PLANS IN THE PAST (often followed by ‘but’) to talk about a plan, sometimes one that may have changed. These grammar …

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can be

B1, general, MODALITY, tendency, true / amazing, appearances, BE, can, choices, community, competition, complex, confident, confusing, consequences, consuming, cost, costs, cruel, customers, data, deceptive, devastating, diagnosis, disastrous, disease, effects, fatal, feature, fees, fierce, files, helpful, high, information, insurance, JJ, large, lengthy, low, mistakes, NN, opposite, option, options, overwhelming, pain, process, proud, rate, rates, results, rewards, RR, savings, serious, severe, significant, similar, simple, so, solution, stressful, substantial, successful, symptoms, system, therapy, TLC, tough, treatment, true, unpredictable, useful, VM

Point 98 in the category of modality is defined: GENERAL TRUTHS AND TENDENCIES: ‘can be’ TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE: Their students can get good grades and their income can be higher. male China B1 We follow the EGP example patterns in iWeb: _NN can_VM be _R _J 1 RATES CAN BE AS HIGH 102 2 RATE CAN BE AS HIGH 92 3 INFORMATION CAN …

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indefinite pronouns (negative context)

A1, A2, B1, DETERMINERS, indefinite, NEGATIVE, PRONOUNS, range / actually, afraid, any, anyone, anything, aware, care, connected, cost, expect, look like, many, mean, nothing, PELIC, seem, settle, trade, XX

In the English Grammar Profile, there are a few grammar points that overlap and clash across CEFR levels A2, B1. In regards to the use of the indefinite pronoun: ‘anything.‘ To make things worse, ‘anything‘ is listed at A1 in the English Vocabulary Profile with an A1 student example: … I can’t say anything. A2 point …

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adverb + adjective + noun

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, complex, NOUNS, phrases / accepted, almost, amount, amounts, approach, available, basis, beneficial, binding, boiled, cash, chance, check, choice, closely, colleges, competitive, completely, continuously, contract, cost, daily, deal, difference, differences, disease, diseases, domain, double, drained, efforts, entirely, even, extra, extremely, field, fully, generally, ground, guy, high, higher, highly, historically, idea, increasingly, infection, infections, information, institution, JJ, just, larger, legally, level, lightly, low, lower, market, NN, option, pepper, period, personally, plain, position, price, publicly, qualified, quality, range, rapidly, rate, reasonable, related, relationship, relatively, results, risk, role, RR, scale, significant, size, slightly, soil, spaces, still, story, stuff, surface, surgery, team, transmission, transmitted, variable, way, wide, wider

Point 32 in the category of NOUNs is defined as: complex noun phrases with adverb + adjective + noun EXPERT EXAMPLE: And, you know, this is a fairly transparent example. wnpr.org *This overlaps B1 noun phrases in the category of ADJECTIVES and clashes with C1 in the category of modality (emphasis). A search in iWeb for: _RR _JJ _NN 1 PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE …

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HALF | ENOUGH + OF + determiner

B1, DETERMINERS, quantity, range / a, battle, career, century, challenge, characters, cost, difference, enough, field, following, half, information, island, none, of, options, original, patients, population, race, reason, remaining, screen, season, story, team, third, TLC, top, total, usual

B1 Point 37 in the category of DETERMINERS is defined as: DETERMINER + ‘OF’ + DETERMINER – an increasing range of quantifying determiners (‘half of’, ‘enough of’, ‘none of”) *However, this partly clashes with the B2 Negation point for ‘none of’ FOR EXAMPLE: I can’t get enough of that feeling, and that’s why I learn a language every two years. A search in …

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plus

addition, advantage, B1, CLAUSES, CONJUNCTIONS, NOUNS, numbers, sentence / amount, CC, cost, district, fact, handling, huge, if, interest, loan, PELIC, plus, range, required, so, whole, wide

The use of the conjunction ‘plus’ is covered at two different grammar points in the EGP. Point 14 in CONJUNCTIONS/coordinating is defined as: ‘PLUS’ WITH NOUNS often in relation to numbers. Point 12 is: ‘plus’ to connect clauses and sentences, often to point out a positive addition or advantage. *The word ‘plus’ is difficult to …

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SO MUCH | A LOT (end position)

A2, ADVERBS, degree, end, position / a, around, bother, bothers, cost, DA1, hate, hated, lot, mind, move, moving, much, out, PELIC, RG, RR, so, sound, sounds, thrown, VV

A2 point 18 in the category of Adverbs is defined: degree adverbs in end position. An iWeb search for: _VV * so much . 1 THANK YOU SO MUCH . 12598 2 LOVE IT SO MUCH . 1600 3 LOVE YOU SO MUCH . 752 4 LOVE THEM SO MUCH . 692 5 LOVED IT …

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much + comparative adjective + noun

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, attributive, B2, comparatives, intensity, modify, NOUNS / better, cost, higher, JJR, job, level, lower, much, NN, RR

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