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INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F

so many 63 completely different 4 very anxious 3 quite high 2 very important 35 more and more

diffi cult 4 very busy 3 quite satisfi ed 2

very glad 33 more and more

important 4 very dangerous 3 quite

uncomfortable 2

so much 22 much higher 4 very famous 3 rather cold 2

quite different 20 seriously ill 4 very funny 3 really diffi cult 2

very good 17 so kind 4 very great 3 really sorry 2

very happy 17 so sorry 4 very small 3 really very sorry 2

very sorry 16 so worried 4 very tired 3 so angry 2

too many 11 strong enough 4 very urgent 3 so bad 2

too much 11 too busy 4 very weak 3 so clever 2

so good 12 totally different 4 very worried 2 so convenient 2

very hard 11 very common 4 a bit diffi cult 2 so cruel 2

very interesting 11 very convenient 4 a bit worried 2 so expensive 2 very popular 11 very expensive 4 a little different 2 so great 2

so serious 10 very helpful 4 a little dirty 2 so hot 2

very serious 10 very hot 4 awfully sorry 2 so large 2

quite good 8 very necessary 4 competitive enough 2 so limited 2 very diffi cult 8 very special 4 especially important 2 so poor 2 good enough 7 very wonderful 3 even more diffi cult 2 so smooth 2

so happy 7 even worse 3 far from enough 2 so strong 2

very angry 7 extremely important 3 good indeed 2 so useful 2 very exciting 7 more and more

important 3 lucky enough 2 so weak 2

much better 6 more and more

popular 3 more and more

diffi cult 2 so wonderful 2

so diffi cult 6 much easier 3 more and more

popular 2 too cold 2

so important 6 old enough 3 more and more

powerful 2 too frightened 2

very beautiful 6 really important 3 much bigger 2 too hard 2 (Continued)

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INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F

very delicious 6 rich enough 3 much lower 2 too lazy 2

very grateful 6 so big 3 much more better 2 too shy 2

very interested 6 so easy 3 much more

competitive 2 very bright 2

very useful 6 so interesting 3 much more diffi cult 2 very clear 2

so beautiful 5 so popular 3 much rich 2 very clever 2

so excited 5 so quiet 3 much smaller 2 very different 2

so glad 5 terribly sorry 3 much worse 2 very disappointed 2

very bad 5 too heavy 3 much younger 2 very essential 2

very big 5 too late 3 quite common 2 very familiar 2

very excited 5 too old 3 quite convenient 2 very fast 2

very pleased 5 too young 3 quite familiar 2 very fun 2

very harmful 2 very loud 2 very rich 2 very surprising 2

very large 2 very noisy 2 very round and bright 2 very sweet 2

very limited 2 very poor 2 very similar 2 very terrible 2

very lonely 2 very proud 2 very strict 2 very traditional 2

Very long 2 very quiet 2 very strong 2 very young 2

The following INT-adj combinations all have corpus frequencies of one (raw)

a bit afraid, a bit different, a bit dirty, a bit foolish, a bit hard, a bit noisy, a bit older, a bit slow, a bit younger, a little afraid, a little angry, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little childish, a little clumsy, a little diffi cult, a little disordered, a little hard, a little higher, a little ill, a little lonely, a little longer, a little lovely, a little nervous and thirsty, a little older, a little outdated, a little quieter, a little sad, a little shy, a little similar, a little slow, absolutely unworkable, almost always profound, almost different, almost entire, almost grateful, almost impossible, almost insignifi cant, apparently much smaller, big enough, brash enough, brave enough, broad enough, by no means obsolete, cautious enough, clearly aware, closely concerned, comparably easy, comparatively cheap, comparatively easy, comparatively lucky, comparatively more tranquil, comparatively small, completely dark, comcompletely impossible, comcompletely useless, damned disgusting, defi -nitely different, defi -nitely able, easily infected, enormously big, entirely new, equally cheerful, equally important, equally serious, especially good, especially interested, especially little, especially pleased, especially round, especially useful, especially young, even bolder, even impossible, even more furious, even more seri-ous, even false, exceedingly important , exceptionally full, especially round and bright, extraordinarily observant, extremely different, extremely full, extremely good, extremely long, extremely round and bright, extremely serious, extremely tired, extremely well, extremely popular, fairly cheerful, lively and socialable, (Continued)

Appendices 145 fairly large, fairly optimistic, far from optimistic, fi ne enough, fully educated, fully aware, generally good, generally less serious, greatly different, greatly pleased, greatly thankful, hardly forgettable, high qualifi ed, highly concentrated, highly educated, highly modernized, interesting and imaginative enough, increasingly serious, indeed bewildering, just compulsory and useless, kind enough, late enough, more and more attractive, more and more competent, more and more competitive, more and more competitive, more and more dejected, more and more diffi cult, more and more excited, more and more expensive, more and more highly, more and more important, more and more intense, more and more modern, more and more ordinary, more and more popular, more and more popular, more and more private, more and more prosperous, more and more prosperous, more and more rampant, more and more serious, more and more signifi cant, more and more small, more and more unsociable, more and more useful, more and more vague, more and more worse, more and more young, more and more pessimistic, much bigger and famous, much casual, much cheaper, much cleaner, much farther, much free and colorful, much good, much greater, much harmful, much looser, much more effi cient, much more faster, much more freer, much more satisfactory, much more spare, much older, much richer, much similar, much too bright, much too high, much unhappy, nearly impossible, necessarily concerned, obviously more peaceful, painstaking enough, patient enough, pretty good, pretty tall, qualifi ed enough, quite big, quite boring, quite comfortable, quite common and easy, quite competitive, quite diffi cult, quite disappointed, quite easy, quite essential, quite exiting, quite expensive, quite famous, quite fantastic, quite feasible, quite glad, quite good and attractive, quite happy, quite hard, quite harmful, quite heartened, quite helpful, quite impossible, quite interesting, quite limited, quite nervous, quite nice, quite old, quite optimistic, quite pleasing, quite possible, quite practical, quite relaxing, quite serious, quite simple and common, quite serious, quite simple and common, quite suitable, quite upset, quite warm, quite well, rather active, rather anxious, rather bad, rather boring, rather complicated, rather confused, rather convenient, rather exited, rather good, rather hard, rather high, rather late, rather practical, rather sad, rather small, rather strange, rather thin, rather tiring, rather unpleasant, rather weak, really annoying, really anxious, really aware, really bad, really capable, really delicious, really funny, really good, really hard, really harmful, really heartbreaking, really heavy, really humorous, really inter-ested, really invisible, really kind and friendly, really memorable, really necessary and suitable, really successful, really top, really very convenient, really very high, really wonderful and dangerous, really wonderful and memorable, really worthy, relatively better, relatively high, relatively rapid, scarcely natural, seemingly atten-tive, so afraid, so attracatten-tive, so awful, so big and bright, so brave, so bright and full, so bright, so busy, so capricious and stubborn, so careful, so careless, so clean, so clear, so comfortable, so common, so commonplace, so convincing, so cool, so crazy, so dangerous and steep, so different, so delicious, so eager, so ele-gant, so empty, so exciting, so familiar, so fast, so fi ne, so free, so frightened, so full, so funny, so furious, so gentle and beautiful, so grateful, so hard, so heavy, so helpless, so high, so inconvenient, so interesting and wonderful, so keen, so late,

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so little, so lonely, so loud and piercing, so lovely and active, so lucky, so mad, so memorable, so neat, so nervous, so new, so nice, so noisy, so old, so optimistic, so patient and hospitable, so peaceful and composed, so pursuable, so pessimistic, so pleasurable, so popular and widespread, so practical, so proud, so pure, so rapid, so regrettable, so relaxable, so reliable, so ridiculous, so round, so sad, so satisfactory, so secure, so shameful, so silent, so simple and direct, so skillful, so slow, so soft, so solemn, so strange, so sudden, so suitable, so sure, so surprised, so sweet, so terrible and worrying, so thirsty, so thoughtful, so thriving, so tired, so troublesome, so uncomfortable, so unforgettable and memorable, so unimport-ant, so various and colourful, so violent, so young, somewhat hopeful, specially delicious, stupid enough, surely good, terribly daring and inquisitive, terribly faint, terribly hard, terribly poor, too arrogant, too authoritative, too bad, too big, too boring, too careless, too common, too dependent, too dull and complicated, too dull, too excited, too exciting, too happy, too hot, too large, too limited, too long, too loud and awful, too luxurious, too numerous, too poor, too prudent, too rare or burnt, too scared, too sensitive and easy, too serious, too short, too shy and coward, too sick, too strong, too tired, too weak, totally amazing, totally unaware, unexpectedly short, valuable indeed, vastly different, very abstract, very annoyed, very appalled, very attractive, very attractive and profi table, very beautiful and clean, very beautiful, very boring, very brave and undaunted, very brave, very brief, very bright and full, very careless, very cautious, very cheap and convenient, very clever and brave, very clever and brave, very colorful, very comfortable, very complicated, very concerned, very conscious, very convenient and effi cient, very convenient, very correct and true, very correct, very crowded, very curious, very deligious, very determined, very developed, very delicious, very diligent, very dirty and big, very dirty, very disappointed and angry, very disgusting, very dull and boring, very dull, very easy, very embarrassed, very enjoyable, very excellent, very famous and delicious, very fashionable, very fl exible, very fond, very fortunate, very frank, very free, Very fresh, very happy and excited, very happy and tiring, very high, very huge, very hungry, very important, very important and interesting, very ineffi cient, very interesting and happy, very interesting and instructive, very interesting and stimulating, very keen, very kind, very late, very lovely and amia-ble, very low, very lucky and happy, very modern, very negative, very nice, very obvious, very outstanding, very patient and enthusiastic, very poetic, very power-ful, very precious, very pretty, very rare, very relevant, very round and bright, very round, very sad, very sentimental, very severe and exciting, very sharp, very short, very signifi cant, very simple, very smooth and fair, very stable, very stiff, very suc-cessful, very sucsuc-cessful, very superfi cial, very sweet and happy, very systematic, very talkative and interested, very talkative, very tender, very thick, very thin and light, very uncivil, very uncomfortable, very upset, very very happy, very very important, very well, very wise, well educated, wide enough, wide open, widely celebrated, widely used, wise enough.

INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F INT-adj F terminally ill 71 very necessary 4 even better 2 so powerful 2

so many 58 badly deformed 3 even harmful 2 so simple 2

so much 21 completely different 3 even more important 2 so wonderful 2 hopelessly ill 27 fairly large 3 extremely brutal 2 so worried 2 incurably ill 25 more and more diffi cult 3 extremely expensive 2 so young 2 very important 24 more and more important 3 extremely ill 2 too busy 2 too much 15 more and more popular 3 far from enough 2 too early 2 very diffi cult 14 more and more serious 3 fortunate enough 2 too easy 2 seriously ill 9 partly TRUE 3 helplessly ill 2 too limited 2

too many 9 quite long 3 highly civilized 2 too low 2

even worse 8 rather low 3 highly sensitive 2 too radical 2

totally different 8 really hard 3 increasingly important 2 too theoretical 2

very poor 8 so good 3 just theoretical 2 totally deaf 2

quite different 7 so tired 3 more and more fi erce 2 totally innocent 2 too old 6 strong enough 3 More and practical 2 totally TRUE 2

too weak 6 terminally ill 3 more and more

prosperous 2 very bad 2

very old 6 very common 3 much more severe 2 very convenient 2 very serious 6 very expensive 3 much more valuable 2 very forceful 2

highly developed 5 very good 3 quite common 2 very hard 2

much lower 5 very long 3 quite humane 2 very high 2

too late 5 very precious 3 quite new 2 very large 2

very low 5 very small 3 rather poor 2 very natural 2

very rich 5 very useful 3 really important 2 very popular 2

incurably ill or old 4 absolutely necessary 2 really more equal 2 very rare 2 much better 4 absolutely negative 2 relatively low 2 very severe 2 much easier 4 absolutely valuable 2 rich enough 2 very slow 2 severely disfi gured 4 almost impossible 2 seriously deformed 2 very successful 2

so important 4 badly ill 2 so civilized 2 very young 2

vastly different 4 entirely different 2 so high 2

very easy 4 especially young 2 so lazy 2

Appendix VI : INT-adj collocations