What part of speech is ‘LITTLE’? – English Grammar Profiler
‘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 (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) POSSIBLE (JJ) 9508
5 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) A (AT1) 4811 6 IS (VBZ) LITTLE (DA1) MORE (DAR) THAN (CSN) 4452
7 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) TO (TO) DO (VDI) 4105
9 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) ONE (MC1) 3138
11 WITH (IW) LITTLE (DA1) MORE (DAR) THAN (CSN) 2661
12 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) TWO (MC) 2547
14 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) OF (IO) THE (AT) 2515
15 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) IS (VBZ) KNOWN (VVN) 2512
17 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) TIME (NNT1) TO (TO) 2429
19 AS (CSA) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) YOU (PPY) 2330
27 HAD (VHD) LITTLE (DA1) TO (TO) DO (VDI) 1818 28 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 10 (MC) 1744
29 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) EFFORT (NN1) . (.) 1704
32 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 30 (MC) 1460
34 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) THREE (MC) 1436
36 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 15 (MC) 1267
38 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 5 (MC) 1246
41 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) MONEY (NN1) . (.) 1190
44 SO (RG) LITTLE (DA1) TIME (NNT1) . (.) 1185
47 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 2 (MC) 1149 48 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) CHANCE (NN1) OF (IO) 1149 49 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) TIME (NNT1) AS (CSA) 1133 50 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) OF (IO) IT (PPH1) 1128 51 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) FIVE (MC) 1126
52 HAVE (VHI) LITTLE (DA1_RR) TO (II) NO (AT) 1126
55 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 3 (MC) 1045
56 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) DIFFERENCE (NN1) BETWEEN (II) 1035
58 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 1 (MC1) 1009 59 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 20 (MC) 1000
60 HAVE (VH0) LITTLE (DA1) INTEREST (NN1) IN (II) 997
64 HAVE (VHI) LITTLE (DA1) EFFECT (NN1) ON (II) 985 65 OF (IO) LITTLE (DA1) MORE (DAR) THAN (CSN) 967
66 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) ROOM (NN1) FOR (IF) 949
68 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) TIME (NNT1) . (.) 938
75 HAVE (VHI) LITTLE (DA1) IMPACT (NN1) ON (II) 867
76 FOR (IF) LITTLE (DA1) MORE (DAR) THAN (CSN) 866
78 HAD (VHD) LITTLE (DA1) CHOICE (NN1) BUT (CCB) 860
81 DO (VDI) LITTLE (DA1) MORE (DAR) THAN (CSN) 841
84 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) ? (?) 823 85 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) FOUR (MC) 819 86 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) 24 (MC) 812 87 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) AN (AT1) 802
88 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1) INFORMATION (NN1) ABOUT (II) 793
90 VERY (RG) LITTLE (DA1_RR) , (,) AND (CC) 778 91 HAD (VHD) LITTLE (DA1) INTEREST (NN1) IN (II) 768
92 HAVE (VH0) LITTLE (DA1) TIME (NNT1) TO (TO) 768
94 HAD (VHD) LITTLE (DA1) EFFECT (NN1) ON (II) 762
96 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) SIX (MC) 743 97 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) $5 (NNU) 742 98 HAVE (VH0) LITTLE (DA1) CHOICE (NN1) BUT (CCB) 741
99 AS (RG) LITTLE (DA1) AS (CSA) $10 (NNU) 736
4 (RR32) 141541