A search for: _N _RL 1 RIGHT (NN1_RR) AWAY (RL) 65079 2 MILES (NNU2) AWAY (RL) 62505 3 COMMENTS (NN2) BELOW (RL) 51896 4 VIDEO (NN1) BELOW (RL) 43933 5 PEOPLE (NN) HERE (RL) 40996 6 WAY (NN1) HOME (RL_NN1) 38231 7 LINK (NN1) BELOW (RL) 37030 8 TIME (NNT1) TOGETHER (RL) 35626 9 FUNERAL […]
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1 LEFT (VVN) 825113 2 LEFT (JJ) 812850 3 LEFT (VVD) 655523 11 LEFT (RL) 75837 15 LEFT (NN1) 38688
What does ‘s mean between a noun and an adjective? It is always a genetive marker. It shows possession. WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) LARGEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) LEADING (JJ_VVG) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) BEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) BIGGEST (JJT) NATION (NN1) ‘S (GE) LARGEST (JJT) WORLD (NN1) ‘S (GE) GREATEST (JJT)
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‘Little’ is usually an adjective. However, it can also be an adverb or determiner. 1 (JJ) 2959580 2 (RR22) 1608861 3 (DA1) ‘little’ is a determiner between adverbs of degree and conjunctions or TO infinitve marker, between a verb or preposition and a comparative determiner: (RG) little (CSA|TO|V|IO), (V|I) little (DAR) (RG)little (NN1|NNT1) 2 AS
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GET (VV0) DAILY (JJ) NEWS (NN1) IS (VBZ) GOOD (JJ) NEWS (NN1) TAKE (VVI) FULL (JJ) ADVANTAGE (NN1) USING (VVG) SOCIAL (JJ) MEDIA (NN) MAKES (VVZ) PERFECT (JJ) SENSE (NN1) HAS (VHZ) EXTENSIVE (JJ) EXPERIENCE (NN1) READ (VV0) FULL (JJ) REVIEW (NN1) MAKE (VVI) INFORMED (JJ@) DECISIONS (NN2) ARE (VBR) OTHER (JJ) WAYS (NN2) IS
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Almost 70% of the preceding word forms are nouns or determiners and mostly singular. They are rarely adjectives. The main exception is ‘full of’. For example: part of number of lot of end of amount of the use of a kind of
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A search in iWeb for the word “ONE” shows us 6 different tags. 1 ONE (MC1) 24583449 (number) 1 . ONE OF THE 217127 2 THIS IS ONE OF THE 109499 3 TO BE ONE OF THE 88041 4 IT IS ONE OF THE 66555 5 IT ‘S ONE OF THE 42852 It‘s one of the worst crimes of
conjunction as 1 ‘AS’ is mostly used as a subordinating conjunction. Therefore a clause will follow. (CSA) A search in iWeb for _CSA * * * * 1 AS YOU CAN SEE , 77008 2 AS ONE OF THE MOST 35020 3 AS IT TURNS OUT , 26141 4 AS YOU CAN SEE FROM 23386
So I go outside and I‘m sitting in my car, but I‘m getting more and more upset. All Square 1 ‘more’ is a comparative after-determiner (DAR), when it is followed by a noun phrase. For example: For more information, contact me. One or more of the people have come. 2 ‘more’ is a comparative adverb of degree (RGR), when it modifies an adjective or adverb. You are
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‘When’ is most often a subordinating conjunction in the iWeb corpus. WHEN (CS) 8290974 (A2 conjunction) collocates in the movie corpus: 1 CAME 7116 She came by the hotel when I was leaving and she gave me this for you. The Shunning 2 COMES 6367 3 SAW 3620 4 GETS 2919 5 STARTED 2636 The next most common use is as a question adverb. WHEN (RRQ) 2397700 collocates 1 REMEMBER
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AT is by far the most common as a simple preposition. AT is also used in adverbial phrases which we have listed in order of most frequent according to iWeb corpus and then given examples of their usage in sentences: 1 AT ALL 1232801 Maybe they weren’t thinking about anything at all. listen Actually, in traumatic situations, it‘s not at all uncommon. listen 2 AT FIRST 403759
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‘Anything’ is usually an indefinite pronoun. Rarely, it is in a two part adverbial phrase. 1 ANYTHING (PN1) 2 ANYTHING BUT (RR21) idiom = the opposite of the stated quality
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In the top 100 of DA2 + *s there are a few plural time nouns but most are plural nouns. The only exception is ‘many as’ This is the count: (nn2): 73 many: 53 few: 31 (nnt2): 22 several: 16 years: 3 days: 3 times: 3 months: 3 ways: 3 hours: 3 things: 3 others:
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Although ‘so’ is hard to put a part of speech to, it is usually a general or degree adverb, but it can often also be a conjunction. Here is a ranked list in order of most frequent first with highlighted examples: general adverb – “So much for studying grammar everyday.” (RR) suborinating conjunction –
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In this post, we do a search in the iWeb corpus for how ‘about’ is tagged: 1 ABOUT (II) 22037137 simple preposition * * about_II * * 1 YOU THINK ABOUT IT, 14959 If you think about it, we‘re constantly coming out to people, so really you should be good at it. listen 2 DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 10723 3 . ABOUT THE AUTHOR 9220 4 . ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1 THAT (CST) 68828662 3 THAT (DD1) 25191738 5 THAT (CS22) 3093377 6 THAT (RG) 524810 7 THAT (REX21) 308941
Down can be used in many ways! The most common is following a verb as an adverb or preposition particle. 1 DOWN (RP) 6295531 4 DOWN (II) 388611 5 DOWN (RP_NN1%) 74762 6 DOWN (NN1) 69979 7 DOWN (RL22) 67905 9 DOWN (RP_VV0%) 43485 10 DOWN (JJ) 39955
After ‘BE’, a word ending with ‘wn’ is usually past participle. Some exceptions are ‘known’ (where it might be an adjective) ‘down’, ‘brown’, ‘well-known’ and ‘unknown’. 1 IS KNOWN 377649 Unfortunately, that is what is known as a conflict of interest. listen 2 ARE KNOWN 143646 3 IS (VBZ) SHOWN (VVN) 130843 4 BEEN SHOWN 110513 It has not been shown to the court‘s satisfaction that these particular Africans fit that description.
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