| Feature | English Corpus | Reference Corpus | ||
| N | Percent | N | Percent | |
| Total Units | 283 |
| 236 |
|
| FORCE-TYPE | N = 283 | N = 236 | ||
| - intensification | 55 | 19.43% | 68 | 28.81% |
| - quantity | 46 | 16.25% | 24 | 10.17% |
| FOCUS-TYPE | N = 283 | N = 236 | ||
| - sharpen | 7 | 2.47% | 8 | 3.39% |
| - soften | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 6.78% |