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Table 2 Top 30 adverbial collocates of the verb affect

From: Corpus-based analysis of near-synonymous verbs

1

Adversely

307

11.26

2

Directly

146

8.83

3

Badly

110

8.81

4

Seriously

106

8.73

5

Significantly

84

8.56

6

Severely

62

8.46

7

Profoundly

45

8.44

8

Materially

25

7.76

9

Greatly

42

7.47

10

Indirectly

22

7.46

11

Deeply

38

7.38

12

Particularly

63

7.06

13

Radically

16

6.91

14

Inevitably

20

6.8

15

Disproportionately

13

6.8

16

Strongly

26

6.65

17

Worst

10

6.49

18

Little

34

6.32

19

Mainly

21

6.31

20

Considerably

14

6.23

21

Powerfully

9

6.21

22

Substantially

12

6.2

23

Drastically

9

6.19

24

Vitally

8

6.1

25

Marginally

8

6.07

26

Immediately

22

6.04

27

Critically

8

6

28

Potentially

11

6

29

Markedly

8

5.97

30

Especially

14

5.94