Linda,
Using the view.byu.edu BNC interface enter [vb*] [v?n] and this will give
you a frequency list.
I know its not wordsmith but there it is
Jeremiah McGhee
On 3/1/07, Georg Marko <georg.marko@uni-graz.at> wrote:
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> Dear Linda,
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> I just tried a search (on a different corpus, but also one with the same
> tag set, even though the tags are attached to the ending rather than to the
> beginning of words). Anyway the following should work:
>
> <w VBD>* <w VVN> I put * after the first tag to mean any form of BE
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> <w VB*
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> This should include all forms of *be *(I think VBD just refers to the past
> tense and does not occur on its own just as VBDZ for *was*, and VBDR for *
> were*)
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> <w VVN>*
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> This should include any word classified as a past participle.
> So the search string *<w VB* <w VVN>* *should work, maybe also <w VB* and
> <w VVN>* as context word (with horizon 0/2), because this would also cover
> passives with an adverb intervening between the auxiliary and the participle
> (e.g. *was really adopted*).
>
> I may have made a mistake here myself...
>
> Best regards
>
> Georg
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> "I drew a treasure map on your hand"
> Ani diFranco
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