ToJABL To-clause after ability adjective
Definition
To-clause preceded by an ability adjective.
Detection Rules
Adjective from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (13 items)
anxious
careful
determined
eager
eligible
hesitant
inclined
obliged
prepared
ready
reluctant
unable
unwilling
Normalization
Per words
Examples
able to
ready to
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version