1 SOCIAL (JJ) 3761303 2 SPECIAL (JJ) 3229728 3 FINANCIAL (JJ) 2465150 4 MATERIAL (NN1) 1430000 5 ESSENTIAL (JJ) 1148597 6 POTENTIAL (JJ_NN1) 1058312 7 COMMERCIAL (JJ) 984818 8 TRIAL (NN1) 830854 9 INITIAL (JJ_NN1) 813467 10 OFFICIAL (JJ_NN1) 698574 11 INDUSTRIAL (JJ) 595618 12 POTENTIAL (NN1_JJ) 534622 13 RESIDENTIAL (JJ) 444448 14 CRUCIAL (JJ) […]
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1 BACK (RP) 6374291 3 BACK (NN1) 1521907 7 BACK (VVI) 95994 13 BACK (VV0) 23213 20 BACK (JJ) 11650 30 BACK (II32) 4078
A1 a type of thing or person
A2 generous, helpful, and thinking about other people’s feelings
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It is very possible to have a noun after a past participle. 1 TAKEN (VVN) PLACE (NN1) 57019 2 TAKEN (VVN) CARE (NN1) 52472 3 TAKEN (VVN) ADVANTAGE (NN1) 15507 4 MADE (VVN) PUBLIC (NN1_JJ_RR@) 14502 5 ELECTED (VVN_JJ@) PRESIDENT (NN1) 10852 6 TAKEN (VVN) PART (NN1) 9235 7 BUILT (VVN) ENVIRONMENT (NN1) 7734 8
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The word ‘way’ is almost always a noun, but sometimes it can be an adverb. 1 WAY (singular noun) Here are common phrases at various levels as examples: And, by the way, I was right, she‘s not married. listen Personality goes a long way. listen Colonel, I have no way to protect these people. listen I guess, in one way or another, I‘ve been headed for this for a couple of years, haven’t I? listen I shall be relieved when it is ended, one way or the
1 LESS (DAR) 1728658 2 LESS (RGR) 1135509 6 LESS (RRR) 224790 13 LESS (II%) 21380 17 LESS (RR33) 10629 27 LESS (NN1) 1708
1 NOT (XX) PART (NN1) 50878 2 N’T (XX) PART (NN1) 7448 3 NOT (XX) ROCKET (NN1) 5916 4 NOT (XX) IMPACT (NN1_VV0%) 5263 5 NOT (XX) PRACTICE (NN1) 4547 6 NOT (XX) WORK (NN1_VV0) 3883 7 NOT (XX) IMPACT (NN1) 3447 8 NOT (XX) POST (NN1_II@) 3340 9 NOT (XX) LIFE (NN1) 3107 10
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-ITY is a noun suffix that is formed from some adjectives. It means the quality of or state of. For example, scarcity means the quality of being scarce. Some other examples of nouns with -ITY suffix are: Equality: quality of being equal Rarity: quality of being rare Activity: state of being active Sensitivity: quality of being sensitive
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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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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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PUBLIC RIGHT HUMAN TOP GENERAL FINAL OTHER MULTIPLE FUTURE FAVORITE STANDARD KEY MOBILE TOTAL AVERAGE POTENTIAL FUN LIGHT INDIVIDUAL FRONT PAST PRIMARY OVERALL RED INITIAL DARK ENGLISH OFFICIAL MAXIMUM GREEN CANADIAN CLASSIC PRESENT CANT CONTENT CHIEF FRENCH MINIMUM AUDIO CRIMINAL FEMALE BOTTOM MIDDLE BLACK GERMAN LEFT WHOLE REAR NET BLUE LEVEL ALTERNATIVE WHITE SAFE COLD
Apart from a very small amount of words, ‘-ness’ almost always marks a noun. BUSINESS FITNESS AWARENESS ILLNESS HAPPINESS EFFECTIVENESS DARKNESS CONSCIOUSNESS WEAKNESS He has a weakness for beautiful women. listen THICKNESS WITNESS GOODNESS WILDERNESS WELLNESS BRIGHTNESS WILLINGNESS KINDNESS MADNESS FORGIVENESS SICKNESS READINESS FAIRNESS RIGHTEOUSNESS SADNESS HARNESS SWEETNESS WITNESS (VVI) GREATNESS WELLNESS (NP1) STIFFNESS REDNESS HOMELESSNESS HOLINESS OPENNESS
Noun If you include an article or determiner plus a word that ends with: (AL|ANCE|ATION|TION|SION|URE|MENT|AGE|ING|ERY|NESS|ITY|ISM| TH|Y|ERY|TY|ANT|ENT|EE|IST|AR|ER|OR|ster|ARIAN|EE|ER|EER|IST|ETTE| SIE|SY|IE|Y|LET|LING|KIN|DOM|SHIP|HOOD) you probably have a noun phrase. *er though could be comparative adjective! Adjective (AL|ARY|FUL|IC|ICAL|ISH|LESS|LIKE|LY|OUS|Y|ABLE|IBLE|ANT|ENT|IVE|ING|ED|EN|esque|ious|ous) VERB (ate|en|ify|fy|ize|ise) ADVERB -ly *the problem with including -y is that it clashes with -ly -AL noun or adjective In the top 100
The word ‘being‘ is most often used as a verb, but also a noun (human being, comes into being) and in a time adverbial phrase (for the time being). Here are the search results in NOW corpus for: * * _VBG * * ADDRESS BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO At least, you didn’t require readers to log in with an email address before being allowed to read it! brownsnation.com The rest of
Here’s a student example of using a verb-ing form as a noun subject: Studying for an exam won’t be hard for you if you follow these steps. PELIC: Chinese male level 3 writing class. Here’s an example in educational materials of the news: Closing the gas pipeline is one action Western nations have taken against Russia. BreakingNewsEnglish Here’s an example of verb-ing after ‘to’: The find goes a long way to solving the mystery of why the Stonehenge bluestones were brought from so far away when all other stone circles were erected within a short distance of their quarries. thebritishacademy.ac.uk In the English Grammar Profile, point 22 in NOUNS
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