Definition: 'Around'

Statistics

• Length: 6 characters
• Syllables: 2

Grammatical Information

• Adverb of place
• Preposition
• Usually followed by a gerund rather than an infinitive
• Adverbs can modify Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, Pronouns and whole Sentences
• 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
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula