1 REGARDLESS (RR) OF (IO) 567480 2 KIND (RR21%) OF (RR22) 284947 3 KIND (RR21%_NN1) OF (RR22_IO) 206018 4 SORT (RR21@) OF (RR22) 203882 5 SORT (RR21@_NN1) OF (RR22_IO) 68030 6 ALL (RR41) OF (RR42) 63795 7 BEST (RRT_JJT) OF (IO) 54762 8 ALSO (RR) OF (IO) 40709 9 ALL (RR@) OF (IO) 32409 10 […]
1 AROUND (II) 2642412 2 AROUND (RP) 2001519 1 BEEN (VBN) AROUND (RP) FOR (IF) 57254 2 WAY (NN1) AROUND (RP) . (.) 26838 3 TIME (NNT1) AROUND (RP) . (.) 23802 4 TIME (NNT1) AROUND (RP) , (,) 22216 5 PLAY (VVI) AROUND (RP) WITH (IW) 20354 6 PLAYING (VVG) AROUND (RP) WITH (IW) […]
The word ‘across’ is most often a preposition. It can also be a locative adverb or adverb particle. 1 (II) As a preposition, ‘across’ precedes a noun phrase. Obviously the next word will most often be an article. 1 FROM (II) ACROSS (II_RL@) THE (AT) 76123 2 AND (CC) ACROSS (II) THE (AT) 29899 3 […]
1 BEFORE (II) 3240842 3 BEFORE (CS) 2449322 4 BEFORE (RT) 1195294 As a time adverb it is usually followed by punctuation such as a fulltop to end the sentence. 1 EVER (RR) BEFORE (RT) . (.) 46488 2 THAN (CSN) BEFORE (RT) . (.) 25451 3 SEEN (VVN) BEFORE (RT) . (.) 21220 4 […]
1 BASED (VVN) ON (II) 2713989 2 KNOWN (VVN) AS (II) 1156665 3 COMES (VVZ) TO (II) 937726 4 COMPARED (VVN) TO (II) 832204 5 LOOKING (VVG) AT (II) 822174 6 GO (VV0) TO (II) 800246 7 GO (VVI) TO (II) 758042 8 TALKING (VVG) ABOUT (II) 686009 9 LOOK (VVI) AT (II) 639052 10 […]
I_PPIS1 go_VV0 over_RP the_AT bridge_NN1 ._. (if lexical verb before then ‘over’ is a particle, regardless if followed by a noun or prepositional phrase) I_PPIS1 go_VV0 over_RP for_IF lunch_NN1 ._. I_PPIS1 go_VV0 over_RP ._. (But if the verb ‘BE’ precedes ‘over’, and it followed by a noun phrase, then it is a preposition.) I_PPIS1 am_VBM […]
1 LIKE (II) 12859907 2 LIKE (VVI) 2829631 3 LIKE (VV0) 1807281 8 LIKE (CS) 242194 27 LIKE (JJ) 54117
1 ABOVE (RL) 1594916 2 ABOVE (II) 1000328 3 ABOVE (JJ@) 434599 16 ABOVE (NN1) 573
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
1 ‘AS’ is mostly used as a subordinating conjunction. Therefore a clause will follow. (CSA) 3 ‘As’ is used a little less as a preposition. Therefore, a noun phrase will follow. (II) 5 (II22) 6 ‘AS’ is less frequently also used as an adverb of degree. (RG) It is often followed by an adjective or […]