@snailboat I'd recommend adding a "editor note: this is about bare role NPs and a useful answer would mention blah blah blah". The tag isn't gonna be one that gets applied to a reasonable number of questions, and for a coherent set of tags we don't need too specific or too general tags, so.
By the way, I retagged everything tagged [transitive-verbs], [intransitive-verbs] or [ditransitive] with [transitivity]. There were less than 30 all told, and it's almost impossible to talk about just transitives without talking about intransitives, too.
I also created some new ones: causative-have, causative-get, have-got, get, have, reference, pied-piping, preposition-stranding, forms-of-address, past-vs-present-perfect for questions I know come up again and again and again - there aren't that many QQ on them now, but there will be before we're over.
Here are four that belong under one tag, perhaps conversion-derivation: verbing, verbal noun, deverbal, nominalization.
We're gonna need to sort out all the -clause -phrase tags; there are methodological lines we may want to respect.
Hmm ... There are hundreds of questions that are specifically directed to Why past rather than PrPf here, or Why past rather than PaPf here, and they mostly all have the same couple of answers.
Lemme just throw this out, then: how many questions on a tag is too many? If we can pick a number we can get a handle on which tags need to be narrowed -- and that will give us a handle on which tags should take over a piece of the big ones.
2k should be the number of questions in less than 5 tags, if those exist.
1k should be the number of questions in less than 20 tags.
Less than 500, the other ones.
Currently, we need a very good reason to keep a tag that has less than 7 questions on it, unless 1. it's a new tag, or 2. it's a very good tag with some hopes of growing.
Even 500 seems very high to me. What use is a list of 500 questions? Ideal to my mind would be 50 top, with a few allowed to reach maybe 100. Except the -meaning/-request/-choice/-difference sort of tags, which are mostly unique and reachable only through a title search.
