WOULD love prefer

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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
Going to the theater or streaming, you can’t beat a good movie
Personally I would love to see movies on the big screen again, but at the same time I have to be adult and be responsible with my money.
2 HEAR 29108
3 WIN 3245
4 THOUGHTS 2993
5 FEEDBACK 2614
6 JOIN 2172
7 PERSONALLY 1157
8 SUGGESTIONS 933
9 CHAT 640
10 OPINIONS 496
WOULD PREFER
1 RECEIVE 820
2 STAY 819
Patrik Schick underlines desire to stay at RB Leipzig
“I would prefer to stay here. We played a great season. I believe in the team, in the coach’s philosophy. I like his football. I think we have the …
3 PERSONALLY 807
4 AVOID 604
5 REMAIN 432
6 IDEALLY 136
7 FULL-TIME 124
8 RESPONDENTS 94
9 PART-TIME 88
10 ENQUIRY 66
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