Pronoun Collocates of the Modals
| LOB (1961) | FLOB (1991) | change | ||||
| Words | 1L words | freq | % | frequency | % | % |
| shall/shan't | I | 82 | 23.1 | 70 | 35.0 | +11.9 |
| we | 89 | 25.1 | ||||
| I/we | 171 | 48.2 | ||||
| you | 4 | 1.1 | ||||
| he/she/it | 2+0+9 = 11 | 3.1 | 0+0+2 = 2 | 1.0 | -2.1 | |
| they | 3 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | -0.8 | |
| he/she/it/they | 14 | 3.9 | ||||