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Word Lists

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Alice Deakins has shared Robert Allen's Lists with us. 

 

 

 

 

See also the appendix of Louis Inturrisi's The Ways of Written English

 

The Order of Elements in Noun Clusters (Her last two lovely, large, round, blue French glass ink bottles...)

Combining Particles (about, across, after ...)

 

Determiners (the, a, an, this ...)

 

Adjectival Subordinators (after, as, before, but ...)

 

Adverbial Subordinators (after, although, because, before ...)

 

Intensifiers (almost, awful, barely ...)

 

Construction modifiers (about, all, almost, at best ...)

 

Middle Adverbs (all, almost, actually, apparently ...)

 

Nominal Subordinators (after, whether, whether or not ...)

 

Single-Word Prepositions (aboard, about, above, ...)

 

Complex Prepositions (abreast of, according to, across from ...)

 

Phrasal Prepositions (as well as, at sight of, by dint of ...)

 

The WH words (how, what, when ...)

 

The EVER words (however, whatever, whenever ...)

 

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