| singular or mass noun | NN | 137 |
| plural noun | NNS | 62 |
| verb, base form | VB | 53 |
| adjective | JJ | 42 |
| verb, past participle | VBN | 33 |
| verb, past tense | VBD | 29 |
| verb, 3rd. singular present | VBZ | 28 |
| preposition | IN | 27 |
| adverb | RB | 21 |
| verb, present participle/gerund | VBG | 16 |
| Unknown | UNK | 14 |
| Personal pronoun | PRP | 12 |
| verb, non 3rd person, singular, present | VBP | 12 |
| singular determiner/quantifier (this, that) | DT | 7 |
| modal auxiliary (can, should, will) | MD | 6 |
| Possessive pronoun | PRP$ | 6 |
| Wh-adverb (how, where, when) | WRB | 4 |
| coordinating conjunction (and, or) | CC | 3 |
| adverb/particle (about, off, up) | RP | 2 |
| Wh-pronoun (whom) | WP | 2 |
| comparative adjective | JJR | 2 |
| infinitive marker to | TO | 1 |
| semantically superlative adjective (chief, top) | JJS | 1 |
| existential there | EX | 1 |
| foreign word (hyphenated before regular tag) | FW | 1 |
| possessive wh-pronoun (whose) | WP$ | 1 |
| cardinal numeral (one, two, 2, etc.) | CD | 1 |