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Is there a frequency of the use of different parts of speech in English?

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.

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There are tables of frequency according to parts of speech in the Lancaster frequency lists:

Lancaster Frequency Lists Chapter 5

Answered by Anton on November 28, 2020

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