English Language & Usage Asked on November 28, 2020
I am wondering if there has been any research on the statistical frequency of the different parts of speech. I’m looking for something like "20% nouns, 13% verbs, 10% adjectives, 11% prepositions, 5% pronouns, 13% articles, 6% conjunctions, 14% interjections, 8% adverbs".
I am using the word statistical because this would clearly not apply exactly to every passage of text. However, this is just general.
There are tables of frequency according to parts of speech in the Lancaster frequency lists:
Answered by Anton on November 28, 2020
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