 Hi it's me again, your VLC advisor. In the following, I will provide an overview of the part of speech search in the COCA. Here is the first option. You may encounter problems when you are looking for a word that spans more than one word class or part of speech, for short POS. For example, if you search the corpus for result, and look at the concordance lines. Both verbs and nouns are shown. However, often you want to confine your search to one word class only. In an annotated corpus such as the COCA, this can be achieved by using the part of speech tags. In order to restrict the hits for result as a noun, use the POS drop-down list. Then click on underscore POS, and select the first tag for all nouns. Now in N, the tag for noun in general is connected with the word by an underscore, and the query will only get hits showing result as a noun. Whereas the underscore option restricts the results to particular word classes, the simple POS option allows us to generate list of words of a particular word class following the search item. A third option allows us to exclude certain parts of speech from the search. For example, if you want to see all the words following pretty, but you are not interested in any nouns, just type in pretty-noun with a space between the search item and the tag. This excludes nouns from the result list. Okay, this should suffice as an overview. Don't forget to practice as a recommendation. Try further POS tags. Thanks for your attention, and see you again soon.