Position of also
Word order question - whether to put also before or after the verb.
In the British National Corpus, verbs are followed by also 61,207 times. Here is the list of the top ones, all but one being auxiliaries.
be 32086
have 7519
will 4662
can 3610
may 3059
would 1875
should 1466
see * 1399
must 1226
could 1163
might 578
shall 114
do 67
Then the lexical verbs
also + verb = 78114
Of the seven most frequent verb forms following also, six are lexical (none of the above auxiliaries)
also vvn 17405
also vvd 13853
also vvz 10405
also vvi 9604
also vvb 7387
also vbi * 7065 (infinitive of 'be')
also vvg 3281
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62,235 which is 80% of all occurences of this word order
* vbi was not included.
This might sound familiar to those who have learnt the position of adverbs of frequency.
This page comes from another of my sites, but somewhere
there is a more complete one, methinks.