AJ0 Adjective (general or positive) (e.g. good, old, beautiful) AJC Comparative adjective (e.g. better, older) AJS Superlative adjective (e.g. best, oldest) AT0 Article (e.g. the, a, an, no) AV0 General adverb: an adverb not subclassified as AVP or AVQ (see below) (e.g. often, well, longer (adv.), furthest) AVP Adverb particle (e.g. up, off, out) AVQ Wh-adverb (e.g. when, where, how, why, wherever) CJC Coordinating conjunction (e.g. and, or, but) CJS Subordinating conjunction (e.g. although, when) CJT The subordinating conjunction that CRD Cardinal number (e.g. one, 3, fifty-five, 3609) DPS Possessive determiner-pronoun (e.g. your, their, his) DT0 General determiner-pronoun: i.e. a det.-pron. which is not a DTQ or an AT0 DTQ Wh-determiner-pronoun (e.g. which, what, whose, whichever) EX0 Existential there (there is ..., there are ...) ITJ Interjection or other isolate (e.g. oh, yes, mhm, wow) NN0 Common noun, neutral for number (e.g. aircraft, data, committee) NN1 Singular common noun (e.g. pencil, goose, time, revelation) NN2 Plural common noun (e.g. pencils, geese, times, revelations) NP0 Proper noun (e.g. London, Michael, Mars, IBM) ORD Ordinal numeral (e.g. first, sixth, 77th, last) PNI Indefinite pronoun (e.g. none, everything, one [as pronoun], nobody) PNP Personal pronoun (e.g. I, you, them, ours) PNQ Wh-pronoun (e.g. who, whoever, whom) PNX Reflexive pronoun (e.g. myself, yourself, itself, ourselves) POS The possessive or genitive marker 's or ' PRF The preposition of PRP Preposition (except for of) (e.g. about, at, in, on, on behalf of, with) PUL Punctuation: left bracket - i.e. ( or [ PUN Punctuation: general separating mark - i.e. . , ! , : ; - or ? PUQ Punctuation: quotation mark - i.e. ' or " PUR Punctuation: right bracket - i.e. ) or ] TO0 Infinitive marker to UNC Unclassified items - not considered as items of the English lexicon VBB The present tense forms of the verb BE, except for is, 's (i.e. am, are, 'm, 're and be [subjunctive or imperative]) VBD The past tense forms of the verb BE: was and were VBG The -ing form of the verb BE: being VBI The infinitive form of the verb BE: be VBN The past participle form of the verb BE: been VBZ The -s form of the verb BE: is, 's VDB The finite base form of the verb BE: do VDD The past tense form of the verb DO: did VDG The -ing form of the verb DO: doing VDI The infinitive form of the verb DO: do VDN The past participle form of the verb DO: done VDZ The -s form of the verb DO: does, 's VHB The finite base form of the verb HAVE: have, 've VHD The past tense form of the verb HAVE: had, 'd VHG The -ing form of the verb HAVE: having VHI The infinitive form of the verb HAVE: have VHN The past participle form of the verb HAVE: had VHZ The -s form of the verb HAVE: has, 's VM0 Modal auxiliary verb (e.g. will, would, can, could, 'll, 'd) VVB The finite base form of lexical verbs (e.g. forget, send, live, return) [Including the imperative and present subjunctive] VVD The past tense form of lexical verbs (e.g. forgot, sent, lived, returned) VVG The -ing form of lexical verbs (e.g. forgetting, sending, living, returning) VVI The infinitive form of lexical verbs (e.g. forget, send, live, return) VVN The past participle form of lexical verbs (e.g. forgotten, sent, lived, returned) VVZ The -s form of lexical verbs (e.g. forgets, sends, lives, returns) XX0 The negative particle not or n't ZZ0 Alphabetical symbols (e.g. A, a, B, b, c, d) In addition, the BNC World Edition uses thirty "ambiguity" tags: tag ambiguous between most probable ------- ----------------- ------------- AJ0-NN1 AJ0 or NN1 AJ0 AJ0-VVD AJ0 or VVD AJ0 AJ0-VVG AJ0 or VVG AJ0 AJ0-VVN AJ0 or VVN AJ0 AV0-AJ0 AV0 or AJ0 AV0 AVP-PRP AVP or PRP AVP AVQ-CJS AVQ or CJS AVQ CJS-AVQ CJS or AVQ CJS CJS-PRP CJS or PRP CJS CJT-DT0 CJT or DT0 CJT CRD-PNI CRD or PNI CRD DT0-CJT DT0 or CJT DT0 NN1-AJ0 NN1 or AJ0 NN1 NN1-NP0 NN1 or NP0 NN1 NN1-VVB NN1 or VVB NN1 NN1-VVG NN1 or VVG NN1 NN2-VVZ NN2 or VVZ NN2 NP0-NN1 NP0 or NN1 NP0 PNI-CRD PNI or CRD PNI PRP-AVP PRP or AVP PRP PRP-CJS PRP or CJS PRP VVB-NN1 VVB or NN1 VVB VVD-AJ0 VVD or AJ0 VVD VVD-VVN VVD or VVN VVD VVG-AJ0 VVG or AJ0 VVG VVG-NN1 VVG or NN1 VVG VVN-AJ0 VVN or AJ0 VVN VVN-VVD VVN or VVD VVN VVZ-NN2 VVZ or NN2 VVZ --------------------------------------