Guide to COBUILD abbreviations

Word classes


adj	adjective group
adv	adverb group
amount	word or phrase indicating an amount of something
be	any form of the verb be
colour	colour word
cont	continuous
det	determiner
-ed	past participle of a verb
get	any form of the verb get
imper	imperative
inf	infinitive form of a verb
n	noun or noun group
names	names of places or institutions
neg	negative word
num	number
n-uncount	uncount noun or noun group with an uncount noun
oft	often
ord	ordinal
P	particle, part of a phrasal verb
passive	passive voice
pl	plural
poss	possessive
prep	prepositional phrase or preposition
pron	pronoun
pron-refl	reflexive pronoun
quote	direct speech
sing	singular
that	‘that’-clause
to-inf	the to-infinitive form of a verb
usu	usually
v	verb or verb group
v-ed	past participle of the verb
v-ing	present participle of the verb being defined
v-ing	present participle of a verb
v-link	link verb
wh	wh-word, clause beginning with a wh-word