ABOUT – English Grammar Profiler

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.

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2 DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 10723 3 . ABOUT THE AUTHOR 9220 4 . ABOUT THE AUTHOR 8063 5 THAT ‘S ABOUT IT. 7155 6 I THINK ABOUT IT, 7004 7 NT KNOW ABOUT YOU, 6869 8 CAN DO ABOUT IT. 6793 9 TO THINK ABOUT IT. 6461 10 LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO 6251 11 N’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, 6221 12 DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 5948 13 TO TALK ABOUT IT. 5906 14 YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 5183 15 N’T WORRY ABOUT IT. 4915 16 TO GO ABOUT IT. 4200 17 TO DO ABOUT IT. 4133 18 TO THINK ABOUT. 4118 19 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 3985

20 . THINK ABOUT IT. 3977

2 ABOUT (RG) 3728749 grading adverb before an amount

* * about_RG * *

1 . ABOUT A YEAR 2025

About a year ago, 

in the paper, 

there was a story about the Zodiac.

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2 . ABOUT HALF OF 1404 3 . ABOUT A WEEK 979 4 . AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR 928 5 . ABOUT AN HOUR 824 6 IT FOR ABOUT A YEAR 745 7 IT TAKES ABOUT AN HOUR 737 8 . AFTER ABOUT A WEEK 733 9 COOK FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES 706

10 TOOK ME ABOUT AN HOUR 687

12 IT FOR ABOUT A WEEK 653
13 , AND ABOUT HALF OF 617

15 . AFTER ABOUT A YEAR 591
16 THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN 551

19 . ABOUT TWO YEARS 490

3 ABOUT (RPK) 438095 BE + about to-infinitive:

* * about_RPK * *

1 THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET 1085

I‘m sorry to say 

things are about to get much worse for you.

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2 WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 1073 3 YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE 988 4 THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE 848 5 WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 844 6 I AM ABOUT TO START 838 7 I WAS ABOUT TO SAY 826 8 I’M ABOUT TO START 817 9 I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE 765 10 THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE 765 11 I’M ABOUT TO SAY 746 12 I WAS ABOUT TO GO 746 13 HE WAS ABOUT TO BE 731 14 IT’S ABOUT TO GET 720 15 YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ 718 16 I AM ABOUT TO SAY 686 17 YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE 681 18 I’M ABOUT TO GO 673 19 I’M ABOUT TO DO 639

20 THAT IS ABOUT TO BE 597

4 ABOUT (RP) 121562 particle (sadly RP will also catch the above RPK by the corpus software.  They seem incorrectly tagged)

1 IS ALL ABOUT. 7235
2 TO WORRY ABOUT. 5974

5 ABOUT (RL) 442 locative

1 AROUND AND ABOUT. 7
2  AROUND AND ABOUT THE PLACE 7