ToJCRTN To-clause after certainty adjective
Definition
To-clause preceded by a certainty adjective.
Detection Rules
Adjective from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (9 items)
apt
certain
due
guaranteed
liable
likely
prone
sure
unlikely
Normalization
Per words
Examples
certain to
likely 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