Definition: 'After'

Statistics

• Length: 5 characters
• Syllables: 2

Grammatical Information

• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Usually followed by a gerund rather than an infinitive
• A conjunction joins words or, more frequently, phrases and clauses
• Prepositions connect words together
• If a preposition isn't connecting words but modifying one word, as in many phrasal verbs, it can be called a Particle (or an Adverb)

Lexical Information

• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• One of the 850 words in Basic English
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula