ToJEASE To-clause after ease adjective

MFTE ToJEASE MFTE ToJSTNCall

Definition

To-clause preceded by an adjective of ease/difficulty.

Detection Rules

Adjective from list + to + verb base form.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (6 items)
difficult easier easy hard impossible tough

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per words

Examples

easy to

hard 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

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