Automatic
Mapping Among Lexico-Grammatical Annotation Models (AMALGAM)
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Listed alphabetically below are the tags used in the LOB corpus. Each tag has examples of the tokens that were annotated with that tag. The examples are taken directly from the LOB corpus. If the list of examples ends with an ellipsis marker then the tag category can be assumed to be an open class.
The original LOB tagger did not take raw text as input but text that had some features pre-annotated such as indicators to mark abbreviations or special characters. As a result, the examples given in some categories may appear strange. Please consult the notes after the table for further details.
Further information on the tagged LOB corpus can be found at the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) corpus collection.
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Tag |
Description |
Examples |
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&FO |
formula |
10*:-1**: dE *:238**:U a*;n**; T*:-3/2**: E*;p**;(P) R*?8r(cdE.cde) ... [See note 1] |
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&FW |
foreign word |
de Welt von Retour Flamme route Musique Ancienne Pro unheimliche Opus baraka Biennale Internationale Novum sine die cantabile letzt bru"cke ... |
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! |
exclamation mark |
! |
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( |
opening parenthesis |
( |
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) |
closing parenthesis |
) |
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*' |
opening quotation mark |
*' *" [See note 2] |
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**' |
closing quotation mark |
**' **" [See note 2] |
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*- |
dash |
*- [See note 2] |
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, |
comma |
, |
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. |
full stop |
. |
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... |
ellipsis |
... |
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: |
colon |
: |
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; |
semicolon |
; |
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? |
question mark |
? |
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ABL |
determiner/pronoun, pre-qualifier |
such quite rather such-and-such |
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ABN |
determiner/pronoun, pre-quantifier |
all half |
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ABX |
determiner/pronoun, double conjunction or pre-quantifier |
both |
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AP |
determiner/pronoun, post-determiner |
more most last several next own other many much same less former only very few fewer latter least overmuch ain kast |
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AP" |
determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, ditto |
few good many little [See note 3] |
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AP$ |
determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, genitive |
latter's former's other's |
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APS |
determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, plural |
others |
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APS$ |
determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, plural, genitive |
others' |
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AT |
article, singular |
a an every |
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ATI |
article, singular or plural |
the no nae ye zee de ze |
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BE |
verb "to be", infinitive or imperitive |
be |
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BED |
verb "to be", past tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural |
were |
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BEDZ |
verb "to be", past tense, 1st and 3rd person singular |
was |
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BEG |
verb "to be", present participle or gerund |
being |
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BEM |
verb "to be", present tense, 1st person singular |
am 'm |
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BEN |
verb "to be", past participle |
been |
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BER |
verb "to be", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural |
are 're art 'rt ai |
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BEZ |
verb "to be", present tense, 3rd person singular |
is 's iss ees ai |
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CC |
conjunction, coordinating |
and but or nor as & yet / 'n and/or an' only n' |
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CC" |
conjunction, coordinating, ditto |
well as |
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CD |
numeral, cardinal |
1958 13 two 280,000 20 1959 28.5 400 eight 2 1949 six seven ten 1,400 16 9.40 five 100 four fifty 89 5.30 287 million 1/2 2.35 forty nine 6.55 ... |
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CD$ |
numeral, cardinal, genitive |
8's 3's 5's 4's |
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CD-CD |
numeral, cardinal, hyphenated pair |
1955-6 15-20 1861-1940 1-6 2-0 3-1 33-1 12-1 300-400 0-3 10,000-15,000 1611-1961 six-five 51.1-3 280-338/39 ... |
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CD1 |
numeral, cardinal, one |
one 1 'un |
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CD1$ |
numeral, cardinal, one, genitive |
one's 1's |
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CD1S |
numeral, cardinal, one, plural |
ones 'uns |
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CDS |
numeral, cardinal, plural |
hundreds thousands dozens fifties two-thirds millions 1830's '30s forties middle-thirties sevens '20s 30's 1750s 'forties nines five-sixths zeros ... |
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CS |
conjunction, subordinating |
though that as while if because before than since whether for once except until provided unless although even lest now till such so but albeit whereas in considering nisi like whilst 'n whereupon save altho' tho' directly 'cos 'cause immediately |
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CS" |
conjunction, subordinating, ditto |
if that as though so far order |
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DO |
verb "to do", uninflected present tense, infinitive or imperitive |
do |
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DOD |
verb "to do", past tense |
did |
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DOZ |
verb "to do", present tense, 3rd person singular |
does doth |
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DT |
determiner/pronoun, singular |
another this that each zis zat anudder |
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DT$ |
determiner/pronoun, singular, genitive |
another's |
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DTI |
determiner/pronoun, singular or plural |
any some enough |
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DTS |
determiner/pronoun, plural |
these those |
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DTX |
determiner, pronoun or double conjuction |
either neither |
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EX |
existential there |
there |
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HV |
verb "to have", uninflected present tense, infinitive or imperitive |
have 've hast of 'ave |
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HVD |
verb "to have, past tense |
had 'd |
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HVG |
verb "to have", present participle or gerund |
having havin' |
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HVN |
verb "to have", past participle |
had |
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HVZ |
verb "to have", present tense, 3rd person singular |
has 's hath ai |
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IN |
preposition |
by from at of on for into since in to with despite round as about over without towards behind during under beyond after because against outside including among like apart ... |
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IN" |
preposition, ditto |
of from spite with to front as for means opposed top between against la regards board versus |
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JJ |
adjective |
large likely out-dated adequate nationalist federal united national elected colonial full proposed secret central final unsatisfactory gross unconstitutional angry human heavy hostile economic monstrous warm-hearted ... |
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JJ" |
adjective, ditto |
up off luxe round cut weight priori hoc vires lived board fashioned |
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JJB |
adjective, attributive-only |
left-wing rival chief overall main once-and-for-all prime past nuclear-disarming anti-apartheid American-born built-in 89-year-old joint pro-communist centre second-row top ... |
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JJB" |
adjective, attributive-only, ditto |
army called |
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JJR |
adjective, comparative |
higher better worse easier wider tougher lesser nicer fairer worthier prettier neater noisier deeper happier nobler nearer slower bolder shallower faster-moving ... |
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JJR" |
adjective, comparative, ditto |
wearing |
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JJT |
adjective, superlative |
best fiercest bitterest largest toughest thorniest rarest humblest freshest sweetest clearest best-regulated kindest simplest-of-all handsomest strangest tallest ... |
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JJT" |
adjective, superlative |
selling |
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JNP |
adjective, word-initial capital |
African British Rhodesian anti-Negro German Manchu-Edwardian Yugoslav Asian Congolese inter-African Nazi Olympic Ritzy Anglo-American Persian Elizabethan Teutonic un-Italian Marxist Ritzy Norman Viking Luddite Presbyterian Churchillian Orwellian Kentish ... |
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MD |
modal auxillary |
may will should would can must might could need 'll shall 'd ought wilt mayest dared maun cou'd dare shoud shoulda 'ud wikk |
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NC |
cited word |
many thanks Jimmy ret-key s nonsense Directors' emoluments always only high decadent mouse sous Gita Ghita explode ... |
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NN |
noun, singular, common |
life move bill existence institution sentiment abolition independence association bureau investigation service post present spot sum drain answer rejection blow taxation ... |
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NN" |
noun, singular, common, ditto |
mortem blanche d'oeuvre douloureux garde d'hotel how up obscura hoccery d'affaires pectoris grata ego between |
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NN$ |
noun, singular, common, genitive |
protectorate's labour's doctor's parliament's man's child's hour's airliner's week's conference's regiment's unit's pilot's orchestra's river's library's ... |
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NNP |
noun, singular, common, word-initial capital |
Chinese Irishman American Australian Negress English Scottish Briton Vansittartism Sinhalese Jew Whitgiftian Berliner Gaitskellism Jesuit Lancastrian Belgian Augustinianism Amorite Anabaptist Druze Celt Rugbeian Highlander ... |
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NNP$ |
noun, singular, common, word-initial capital, genitive |
Englishman's Russian's Greek's Hungarian's Eskimo's Genoese's Turk's Frenchman's Prussian's Corsican's Canadian's ... |
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NNPS |
noun, plural, common, word-initial capital |
Africans Americans French Germans Nazis Arabs Anglo-Saxons Scandinavians Romans Pan-Somalis Berliners Ceylonese Cestrians Wearsiders Czechs Hessians Victoriana Dalmatians Brownists Bantu Kelts Slavs Medes Hindoos ... |
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NNPS$ |
noun, plural, common, word-initial capital, genitive |
Germans' Tunisians' Americans' Africans' Nyasalanders' Spaniards' |
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NNS |
noun, plural, common |
peers nominees steps plans discussions organisations drugs conditions opponents details cuts changes foods families deeds words supplies measures police cars demonstrators ... |
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NNS" |
noun, plural, common, ditto |
d'appui ups |
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NNS$ |
noun, plural, common, genitive |
settlers' neutrals' years' pro-communists' nightingales' players' footballers' sportsmen's officers' women's staffs' contributors' employers' hairdressers' breeders' ... |
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NNU |
noun, abbreviated unit of measurement |
\0s \0min \0mph \0d \0in \0p.c \0lb *+1,755million *+900,000 *+3,607,000 *+2 *+720 ... [See note 4] |
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NNU" |
noun, abbreviated unit of measurement, ditto |
\0cent cent \0yd [See note 4] |
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NNUS |
noun, abbreviated unit of measurement, plural |
\0pts \0yds \0gns *+s \0pp \0mins \0hrs \0revs \0galls \0lbs \0ins [See note 4] |
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NP |
noun, singular, proper |
Trevor Williams Michael Manchester Foot-Griffiths Bell Karen Roy Dennis Welensky Rhodesia Nkumbula Macleod Julius Accra Ellender Adenauer George Enoch France Corell-Barnes Selwyn ... |
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NP$ |
noun, singular, proper, genitive |
Cheung's Griffith's Oxford's England's Guy's Swansea's Conroy's Zealand's Kent's London's Reid's Margaret's Windsor's Chatterley's Nancy's Sibelius's Shakespeare's Khruschev's ... |
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NPL |
noun, singular, locative, word-initial capital |
House Sea Hotel Airport Square Plain Island Palace Loch Cape Town River Gallery Yard Cove Park University Parade Mount Head Fountain Colliery Shipyard Citadel ... |
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NPL$ |
noun, singular, locative, word-initial capital, genitive |
City's Garden's Moor's Theatre's Church's Marsh's College's |
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NPLS |
noun, plural, locative, word-initial capital |
Plains Locks Cottages Hills Colleges Universities Schools Churches Sands Galleries Marshes Downs Grottos Islands Isles Farms Pikes Roads Straits Broads Mountains Steps Levels Meadows Precincts Fields Counties Halls Buildings Gardens Galeries Woods Fens Towers Prisons Banks Moors Villages |
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NPLS$ |
noun, plural, locative, word-initial capital, genitive |
Universities' |
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NPS |
noun, plural, proper |
Maritimes Wolves Barbarians Wasps Alps Penguins Brittains Debenhams Beechams Bents Mitchells Courtaulds Salems Spurs Wileys Balkans Lennons Greyfaces Tele-Bins Loyals ... |
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NPS$ |
noun, plural, proper, genitive |
Bents' Cortaulds' Spurs' Wolves' Josephs' Rovers' Mudlarks' Beddises' Loyals' Shadows' Merwes' Caxtons' Marshams' Barkers' Frys' Slaytons' Stevens' Apaches' Pentlands' Cadwells' Swansons' Robertsons' |
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NPT |
noun, singular, titular, word-initial capital |
\0Mr \0MP Sir Premier Secretary Prime Minister President Senator \0Dr Prince \0St \0Pres Professor Herr \0Mrs \0C.I.G.S Rector \0P.C \0Hon \0Det.-Con \0D.C \0D \0PC \0Chief-Insp ... [See note 4] |
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NPT" |
noun, singular, titular, word-initial capital, ditto |
\0P |
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NPT$ |
noun, singular, titular, word-initial capital, genitive |
President's Minister's Premier's Queen's Princess's Duke's King's Ambassador's Earl's Chancellor's Regent's Director's Lord's Pope's Registrar's Emperor's Lady's Laird's Vicar's Commander's Captain's Ma's Rector's Prince's General's ... |
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NPTS |
noun, plural, titular, word-initial capital |
\0MPs Lords Chiefs Ministers Comrades \0M.P.s Premiers Deans Representatives Saints Presidents Commandants Sons \0Messrs \0Clrs Mayors Aldermen Ambassadors Directors \0M.P.'s Tsars Emperors \0C.O.'s Rabbis Masters Knights Kings Brothers ... |
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NPTS$ |
noun, plural, titular, word-initial capital, genitive |
Speakers' \0MPs' Sons' Directors' |
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NR |
noun, singular, adverbial |
tomorrow today yesterday south February Monday home July tonight Sunday north October September December January west east March \0Nov Wednesday to-night south-east Tuesday August Saturday May June to-day \0Feb April north-west \0W ... |
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NR$ |
noun, singular, adverbial, genitive |
today's yesterday's to-night's Wednesday's to-morrow's west's Sunday's Saturday's tonight's Monday's tomorrow's home's |
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NRS |
noun, plural, adverbial |
homes Saturdays Tuesdays Mondays Sundays Fridays Thursdays |
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NRS$ |
noun, plural, adverbial, genitive |
[See note 5] |
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OD |
numeral, ordinal |
second first third thirty-ninth fourth sixth seventh 75th 19th 3rd 4th 6th 2nd twentieth 1,000th 44th fifteenth ... |
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OD$ |
numeral, ordinal, genitive |
[See note 5] |
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PN |
pronoun, nominal |
so anybody nothing no anyone none everything something anything nobody someone everybody somebody no-one some nuffin' ought somethin' nothin' summat nossings somep'n |
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PN" |
pronoun, nominal, ditto |
one |
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PN$ |
pronoun, nominal, genitive |
everyone's everybody's anybody's something's anyone's no someone's |
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PN$" |
pronoun, nominal, genitive, ditto |
one's |
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PP$ |
determiner, possessive |
his their my our its her your thy thine tha 'is yer me |
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PP$$ |
pronoun, possessive |
ours mine theirs yours his hers thine |
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PP1A |
pronoun, personal, nominative, 1st person singular |
I |
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PP1AS |
pronoun, personal, nominative, 1st person plural |
we wee |
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PP1O |
pronoun, personal, accusative, 1st person singular |
me |
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PP1OS |
pronoun, personal, accusative, 1st person plural |
us 's |
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PP2 |
pronoun, personal, nominative or accusative, 2nd person |
you ye thee thou y' ya tha yuh |
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PP3 |
pronoun, personal, nominative or accusative, 3rd person singular |
it 't |
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PP3A |
pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular |
he she 'e |
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PP3AS |
pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person plural |
they |
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PP3O |
pronoun, personal, accusative, 3rd person singular |
him her 'er 'im |
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PP3OS |
pronoun, personal, accusative, 3rd person plural |
them 'em |
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PPL |
pronoun, singular, reflexive |
himself itself myself herself yourself oneself ourself thyself |
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PPLS |
pronoun, plural, reflexive |
themselves ourselves each one yourselves one-another |
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PPLS" |
pronoun, plural, reflexive, ditto |
other another another's other's |
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QL |
qualifier, pre |
too least most very as so more that less mighty real awfully stark this sound precious |
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QLP |
qualifier, post |
enough indeed |
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RB |
adverb |
forward still together violently once immediately bluntly clearly long obviously somewhere too truly seriously accurately profoundly rapidly superbly about ever entirely overseas ... |
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RB" |
adverb, ditto |
and large right particular least course once little last short again than well general from full long so on common certain alia the less main facto first yet se brief but ... |
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RB$ |
adverb, genitive |
else's |
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RBR |
adverb, comparative |
later longer earlier more less better faster worse sooner deeper higher harder closer nearer farther cheaper heavier lower poorer oftener slower louder quicker ... |
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RBT |
adverb, superlative |
best most least fastest lowest worst nearest farthest closest longest furthest |
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RI |
preposition, adverbial, lacking compliment |
before within between above since after with near against alongside opposite but without below besides beyond beneath underneath like |
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RN |
adverb, nominal |
now then here there downstairs upstairs indoors tho inland here-and-now down-town zen hyar downtown |
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RP |
adverb, particle |
down up in through on off out apart about back over round away outside across around aboard inside aside by past behind under forth to oot |
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TO |
infinitival to |
to so in |
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TO" |
infinitival to, ditto |
as to order |
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UH |
interjection |
yes please well \0O.K oh no aw goodbye ah gee whiz sure hey presto wham amen say why dear good-morning hurrah aye welcome boy oi bang er hi hullo goddammit ... |
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VB |
verb, base: uninflected present, imperitive or infinitive |
stop gather turn abolish put take appear prop favour drop meet discuss want fall give consult delay sit attend pass pay help try mention point say increase run know ... |
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VB" |
verb, base: uninflected present, imperitive or infinitive; ditto |
pedal stitch shop |
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VBD |
verb, past tense |
opposed brought said telephoned went denied told remained added renewed arose wanted meant talked flew covered noted hoped thanked delivered supported felt noticed agreed ... |
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VBG |
verb, present participle or gerund |
replying addressing changing switching recommending hoping preserving provoking preventing wearing working winding accepting recalling ordering listening using ... |
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VBN |
verb, past participle |
made put backed abolished created recommended transmitted jailed decided presented cancelled prepared discussed used posted regarded written indicated favoured ... |
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VBZ |
verb, present tense, 3rd person singular |
believes remains gives smears shocks cables says needs goes seems professes reports becomes publishes hopes attacks cracks feels regards claims suggests comes speaks outlines ... |
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WDT |
WH-determiner, interrogative |
what whatsoever whatever which whichsoever whichever vich |
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WDT" |
WH-determiner, interrogative, ditto |
ever |
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WDTR |
WH-determiner, relative |
which |
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WP |
WH-pronoun, interrogative, nominative or accusative |
who whoever wot |
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WP$ |
WH-pronoun, interrogative, genitive |
whose |
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WP$R |
WH-pronoun, relative, genitive |
whose |
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WPA |
WH-pronoun, nominative |
whosoever |
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WPO |
WH-pronoun, interrogative, accusative |
whom-ever whom |
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WPOR |
WH-pronoun, relative, accusative |
whom |
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WPR |
WH-pronoun, relative, nominative or accusative |
who that |
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WRB |
WH-adverb |
when wherever where how why however whenever wherein whereby whence whereof whereunto whereon |
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XNOT |
negator |
not n't na |
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ZZ |
letter of the alphabet |
G-91 F B zh2014 A T-34 bf alp P A20 X D pi O F11309 a b Q M R4 x z q y H M1 J1 M2 J2 n S U c e d f ... |
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