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1 ‘more’ is a comparative after-determiner (DAR), when it is followed by a noun phrase. For example: For more information, contact me. One or more of the people have come. 2 ‘more’ is a comparative adverb of degree (RGR), when it modifies an adjective or adverb. You are more likely to win, and more importantly, […]

In the top 100 of DA2 + *s there are a few plural time nouns but most are plural nouns. The only exception is ‘many as’ This is the count: (nn2): 73 many: 53 few: 31 (nnt2): 22 several: 16 years: 3 days: 3 times: 3 months: 3 ways: 3 hours: 3 things: 3 others: […]

1 THAT (CST) 68828662 3 THAT (DD1) 25191738 5 THAT (CS22) 3093377 6 THAT (RG) 524810 7 THAT (REX21) 308941

1 MUCH (DA1) 4843000 2 3 MUCH (RR) 2568351 5 MUCH (RR32) 38500 6 MUCH (CS43) 4726

1 THIS (DD1) 81536098 4 THIS (RG) 28301 adverb (before an adjective, adverb, or ‘much’)

1 SAME (DA) 9442876 2 SAME (RR33) 35348

1 ALL (DB) 29799350 3 ALL (RR22) 775840 4 ALL (RR) 740585 8 ALL (RR21) 170777 9 ALL (RR31) 91498 10 ALL (RR41) 64668 12 ALL (RR44) 31051

‘Most’ is used to mark the superlative degree a little more often that it’s a superlative after determiner. As a degree adverb ‘most’ usually modifies an adjective or an adverb. 1 MOST (RGT) 7895059 1 MOST (RGT) IMPORTANT (JJ) 619744 2 MOST (RGT) COMMON (JJ) 385906 3 MOST (RGT) POPULAR (JJ) 368581 4 MOST (RGT) […]

Point 65 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: ‘many a’ or ‘many an’ + singular noun for emphasis and focus. *We noticed that this phrase often gets used at the start of sentences. A search on iWeb corpus for many _at1 _nn: 1 MANY A TIME 3162 India Times Indian […]

Point 60 in the category of DETERMINERS & quantity is defined as: ‘either’ and ‘neither’ with singular nouns. An iWeb search for either|neither _nn1 1 EITHER WAY 180299 2 EITHER SIDE 102291 3 EITHER CASE 26335 4 EITHER PARTY 17779 5 EITHER END 15051 6 EITHER DIRECTION 12260 7 NEITHER SIDE 6167 8 NEITHER PARTY […]