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  1. Try out the queries below and check the results choosing Frequency breakdown from the drop-down menu in the upper right corner and clicking on Go
  2. Build your own pattern (based on a linguistic phenomenon) and share it with your collegues

on followed by and and on or off

"on" "and"" "on|off"

preposition followed by any or every followed by a noun in singular

[pos= "IN"] "any|every" [pos= "NN"]

token with lemma go followed by and and any another word 

[lemma= "go"] "and" []

searching for lemma go and token different from went or case insensitive gone 

[(lemma="go") & !(word="went" | word="gone"%c)]

searching for the house and The house

"the"%c [word="house"]

noun phrases with adjectives between determiner and noun in plural

[pos="DT"] [pos="JJ"]{2,} [pos="NNS?"]

an alternative for the query above

[pos="DT"] [pos="JJ"]{2,} [pos="(NN|NNS)"]

noun in singular or plural after adjective modern

[(pos="JJ") & (lemma="modern")][pos="NNS?"]

noun singular or plural preceded by 0 or more adjectives and a determiner

[pos="DT"] [pos="JJ.*"]* [pos="NNS?"]

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