Now, we are going to do a concordance on a part of speech. The BNC uses mark-up like this:
<w c5="NN1"...>
to signal singular count nouns. If you want to get all the singular count nouns put
<w c5="NN1" * *>*
as your search word. WordSmith checks whether the angle-brackets are text characters or tag-openers and -closers:
Here we answer Yes, and you will get stuff like this:
and if you choose to hide the undefined tags using this menu choice:
you get this:
If you searched on
<w c5="NN1" * *>love
you'd get only singular count noun instances of the word love (so no verb uses)