Home
N-Grams
Phrase-Frames
Tutorials
FAQ
Conventions
Changes
Links
Explore Phrase-Frames from the
British National Corpus
*
Get phrase-frames for n =
2
3
4
5
6
> Filters
Conditions:
Save settings as default
Reload default settings
Min. variant count
Count only
Max. variant count
Display POS tags
explain codes
Min. variant frequency
Format results as table with links to variants.
Max. variant frequency
Min. total frequency
Max. total frequency
Start with item
Data chunk size
Order
Descending frequency
Ascending frequency
Descending variant count
Ascending variant count
Alphabetical
POS tags
Optional Word and POS Filters
< Top
Word Forms or POS tags to match or exclude from your query. Multiple words or codes to match or exclude are separated with spaces. POS codes may also be specified by
number
or range(s) of numbers (e.g.
1-6
matches any adjective or adverb).
Wildcards:
*
matches 0 or more characters
?
matches exactly one character.
Word Forms
Word 1:
exclude
Word 2:
exclude
Word 3:
exclude
Word 4:
exclude
Word 5:
exclude
Word 6:
exclude
POS tags
show POS codes
POS 1:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude
POS 2:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude
POS 3:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude
POS 4:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude
POS 5:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude
POS 6:
--> choose or enter code
adjectives: all
adjectives: general
adverbs: all
adverbs: general
determiners: all
negative NOT
nouns: all
nouns: common
nouns: proper
numerals: all
numerals: cardinal
numerals: ordinal
possessive 's / '
prepositions: all
prepositions: OF
prepositions: not OF
pronouns: all
pronouns: indefinite
pronouns: personal
pronouns: reflexive
verbs: all
verbs: lexical
verbs: BE
verbs: DO
verbs: HAVE
verbs: modal (all tenses)
verbs: infinitive
verbs: infinitive marker TO
verbs: present
verbs: present -s
verbs: past
verbs: past participle
wh- interrogatives
alphabetical symbols
interjections
unclassified
wildword
Codes
exclude