lexical verb + general adverb

It is much rarer to follow a lexical verb by a general adverb than a preposition or adverb of degree.

In this search in iWeb corpus, we have removed results that do not match the criteria or have unsure tagging.

18 SEE (VV0) ALSO (RR) 76851
19 WORKS (VVZ) WELL (RR) 75187

21 GO (VVI) WRONG (RR) 74572

26 WORK (VVI) WELL (RR) 68085

32 KNOW (VVI) EXACTLY (RR) 50204

34 KNOW (VV0) EXACTLY (RR) 49832
35 COMING (VVG) SOON (RR) 48111

41 TURN (VV0) RIGHT (RR) 43597

46 WORKING (VVG) CLOSELY (RR) 39917

51 THINK (VVI) SO (RR) 37023
52 WORK (VV0) WELL (RR) 35693

54 SET (VV0_VVD_VVN) FORTH (RR) 35309

57 BECOMING (VVG) INCREASINGLY (RR) 34659

59 WENT (VVD) WRONG (RR) 33624

62 TAKE (VVI) LONG (RR) 31149

65 GOES (VVZ) WRONG (RR) 29470
71 WORKS (VVZ_NN) WELL (RR) 27856
72 GOES (VVZ) WELL (RR) 27537

78 WORKING (VVG) PROPERLY (RR) 26068
79 WORK (VVI) CLOSELY (RR) 26047

82 LAST (VVI) LONG (RR) 25241

86 WORK (VV0) CLOSELY (RR) 24668

88 LET (VVD_VV0) ALONE (RR) 24589

90 TAKEN (VVN) SERIOUSLY (RR) 23940

95 GOING (VVG) WELL (RR) 22422

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