adverbs Archives – Page 4 of 10 – English Grammar Pro

1 SO (RG) MUCH (DA1) 80 3 SO (RG) MUCH (RR) 5 If you can’t decide if ‘much’ a singular after determiner or just a regular adverb, go with probabilty.

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 FIND (VVI) OUT (RP) 628420 2 CHECK (VV0) OUT (RP) 625025 3 FIGURE (VVI) OUT (RP) 394099 4 GOING (VVG) ON (RP@) 375296 5 SET (VVI) UP (RP) 339323 6 END (VVI) UP (RP) 307480 7 GO (VVI) BACK (RP) 305333 8 SET (VVN) UP (RP) 297897 9 FIND (VV0) OUT (RP) 292696 10 […]

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

Following a lexical verb with a degree adverb is possible but much rarer than following a lexical verb with a preposition and a little rarer than following a lexical verb with a general adverb. 11 TAKES (VVZ) ABOUT (RG) 36989 12 LOOKS (VVZ) VERY (RG) 34563 13 GET (VVI) TOO (RG) 32745 16 FEEL (VV0) […]

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 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 (NN1) HOME (RL_NN1) 35509 10 […]

1 LEFT (VVN) 825113 2 LEFT (JJ) 812850 3 LEFT (VVD) 655523 11 LEFT (RL) 75837 15 LEFT (NN1) 38688

‘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 […]

1 ABOVE (RL) 1594916 2 ABOVE (II) 1000328 3 ABOVE (JJ@) 434599 16 ABOVE (NN1) 573