This data set contains frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the LOB corpus of written British English (Johansson et al. 1978), aggregated by genre category.
BrownPassives
A data frame with 15 rows and the following columns:
cat
:genre category code (A
... R
)
passive
:number of passive verb phrases
n_w
:total number of words in the genre category
n_s
:total number of sentences in the genre category
name
:descriptive label for the genre category
Stephanie Evert (https://purl.org/stephanie.evert)
Johansson, Stig; Leech, Geoffrey; Goodluck, Helen (1978). Manual of information to accompany the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen corpus of British English, for use with digital computers. Technical report, Department of English, University of Oslo, Oslo.
BrownPassives
, BrownLOBPassives