diff --git a/R/adverbs.R b/R/adverbs.R
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-freq_adverbs <- list(
-  definite = c("once",
-               "twice",
-               "annually",
-               "daily",
-               "fortnightly",
-               "hourly",
-               "monthly",
-               "nightly",
-               "quarterly",
-               "weekly",
-               "yearly"),
-  indefinite = c("always",
-                 "usually",
-                 "often",
-                 "sometimes",
-                 "rarely",
-                 "never",
-                 "ever",
-                 "hardly ever",
-                 "occasionally",
-                 "seldom",
-                 "generally",
-                 "frequently",
-                 "normally",
-                 "constantly",
-                 "infrequently",
-                 "regularly")
-)
-
-time_adverbs <- list(
-  relative_timepoints = c("yesterday",
-                          "then",
-                          "now",
-                          "today",
-                          "tonight",
-                          "tomorrow"),
-  relational_timepoints = c("already",
-                            "daily",
-                            "last",
-                            "next",
-                            "previously",
-                            "after",
-                            "afterwards",
-                            "early",
-                            "late",
-                            "later",
-                            "since",
-                            "still",
-                            "just",
-                            "seldom",
-                            "before",
-                            "early",
-                            "earlier",
-                            "eventually",
-                            "finally",
-                            "first",
-                            "formerly",
-                            "just",
-                            "lately",
-                            "recently",
-                            "soon",
-                            "yet")
-)
-
-degr_adverbs <- c("lots",
-                  "somewhat",
-                  "barely",
-                  "very",
-                  "much",
-                  "most",
-                  "nearly",
-                  "too",
-                  "extremely",
-                  "enough",
-                  "so",
-                  "slightly",
-                  "especially",
-                  "just",
-                  "almost",
-                  "scarcely",
-                  "virtually",
-                  "fully",
-                  "far",
-                  "exceptionally",
-                  "absolutely",
-                  "awfully",
-                    "badly",
-                  "completely",
-                  "decidedly",
-                  "deeply",
-                  "enormously",
-                  "entirely",
-                  "fairly",
-                  "greatly",
-                  "hardly",
-                  "highly",
-                  "how",
-                  "incredibly",
-                  "indeed",
-                  "intensely",
-                  "just",
-                  "least",
-                  "less",
-                  "little",
-                  "nearly",
-                  "perfectly",
-                  "positively",
-                  "practically",
-                  "pretty",
-                    "purely",
-                  "quite",
-                  "rather",
-                  "really",
-                  "scarcely",
-                  "simply",
-                  "strongly",
-                  "terribly",
-                    "thoroughly",
-                  "totally",
-                  "utterly",
-                  "very",
-                  "virtually",
-                  "well")