explain - English Grammar Profiler

abstract concepts 2856

ACL / ability, abstract, communicate, complex, concept, concepts, concrete, difficult, explain, grasp, ideas, language, mathematics, objects, PELIC, rather, represent, such, tangible, understand, understanding, visual

STUDENT EXAMPLE: The professor tries to explain the abstract concept of freedom. PELIC Arabic male level 5 writing class The plural form is more common in iWeb corpus: 1 ABSTRACT CONCEPTS 2856 2 ABSTRACT CONCEPT 1883 further collocates in iWeb: 1 CONCEPTS 2978 2 AN 1170 3 SUCH 302 4 UNDERSTAND 183 5 CONCRETE 149 6 RATHER 102 7 UNDERSTANDING 101 8 ABILITY 74 …

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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…? is listed at A1) Shall we meet at 7.30 pm? (Here are many …

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COULD (range)

A2, ability, affirmative, B1, MODALITY, range, suggestion, VERBS / add, affect, allow, apply, argue, ask, become, begin, benefit, bring, build, buy, call, care, carry, cause, choose, come, consider, continue, cost, could, create, cut, eat, end, expect, explain, face, fall, feel, find, fit, get, give, go, handle, happen, hear, help, hold, imagine, improve, include, increase, keep, lead, learn, leave, live, look, lose, make, mean, meet, move, occur, offer, open, pay, pick, play, produce, prove, provide, pull, put, reach, read, receive, reduce, result, run, save, say, see, sell, send, serve, set, share, show, spend, stand, start, stay, stop, take, talk, tell, think, try, turn, understand, use, VM, VVI, walk, win, work, write

A2 point 52 in MODALITY: ‘could’ with a limited range of verbs to make suggestions. 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 _VVI 1 COULD GET 239338 TLC STUDENT …

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TO HAVE TO

B1, infinitive, MODALITY / accept, act, adapt, add, adjust, admit, agree, assume, battle, beat, become, bite, break, bring, build, call, cancel, charge, check, compete, compromise, consider, continue, convince, cover, create, cut, deal, decide, defend, deliver, develop, dig, disagree, drop, earn, endure, expect, experiment, explain, fight, figure, fill, fix, focus, follow, force, grow, happen, hate, have, hire, hit, hold, hope, improve, include, increase, invest, jump, keep, kill, let, likely, lose, manage, mess, move, offer, order, overcome, pass, PELIC, perform, pick, plan, prepare, produce, prove, provide, pull, purchase, push, quit, raise, realize, rebuild, remove, replace, return, save, score, search, sell, set, settle, share, shoot, shut, sign, solve, sort, spend, stand, step, stick, suffer, switch, throw, to, trust, try, turn, upgrade, win

Point 117 in the category of MODALITY is defined: ‘have to’ as an infinitive form *This will overlap sometimes with B2 adjectives followed by an infinitive. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: A child is very expensive, this causes parents to have to work more, which can lead to frustration and anger. Taiwanese female, level 4 writing class. An iWeb search for: * _TO have _TO _VVI 1 GOING TO HAVE TO GET 4269 …

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may (modal verb)

A2, affirmative, FUTURE, MODALITY, possibility, PRESENT, weak / add, affect, allow, appear, apply, arise, become, benefit, bring, call, cause, charge, collect, consider, contact, contain, continue, contribute, create, decide, develop, differ, encounter, enter, exist, experience, explain, fall, happen, hold, include, increase, indicate, involve, lead, lose, may, mean, notice, obtain, occur, offer, order, prefer, prevent, produce, prove, provide, qualify, receive, recommend, reduce, remain, request, require, result, return, seem, serve, share, sound, submit, suggest, try, turn, vary, VM, VVI, wish

Point 34 and 48 in the category of MODALITY are defined as: ‘may’ to talk about weak possibility referring to the present and the future affirmative An iWeb search for: may_VM _VVI 1 MAY NEED 294017 2 MAY WANT 253501 3 MAY TAKE 159078 4 MAY INCLUDE 156112 Hannah’s friends, whose needs may include personal or professional problems, depend on her often for her knowledge, understanding and skills. PELIC writing class, …

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LET | MAKE + Verb

B1, pattern, VERBS / add, appear, consider, dry, everyone, explain, happen, introduce, laugh, let, letting, make, PELIC, pray, realize, rest, seem, smile, soak, sound, stand, VVI, wonder

Point 30 in the category of VERBs/patterns is defined as: ‘MAKE’, ‘LET’ + INFINITIVE WITHOUT ‘TO’ *It is interesting that there is no mention of the object between the verbs. A search in iWeb corpus for: MAKE _P _VVI 1 MAKE YOU FEEL 69401 2 MAKE IT WORK 43378 3 MAKE IT LOOK 37679 4 …

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question with adverb

ADVERBS, B1, CLAUSES, QUESTIONS / actually, agree, already, anyone, care, cares, else, even, ever, everyone, explain, happen, just, matter, mean, most, once, own, possibly, received, RR, someone, still, tried, were

Point 51 in CLAUSES is defined as: INTERROGATIVE + ADVERB in mid-position, between the subject and the main verb. For example: And if he still understood it, why does it even matter? A search in iWeb for _P _RR _V ? 1 IT REALLY MATTER ? 1368 2 IT REALLY WORK ? 747 3 YOU REALLY NEED ? 657 4 YOU PLEASE HELP ? …

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the best NOUN to VERB

ADJECTIVES, B1, CLAUSES, infinitive, NOUNS, superlative / add, best, bring, build, check, contact, describe, explain, happen, improve, keep, move, NN, PELIC, prepare, save, set, spend, the, to, VVI, way, ways

Point 35 in adjectives/superlatives is defined as: ‘the best’ before a noun + to infinitive clauses A search in iWeb for: the best _NN to _VVI 1 THE BEST WAY TO GET 24333 2 THE BEST WAY TO GO 10777 3 THE BEST WAY TO MAKE 7555 4 THE BEST WAY TO LEARN 6615 5 …

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