Using The Corpus

 

Using the Corpus Task 1 : Dependent prepositions Do you say ‘Useful hints

to

writing essays” or “useful hints

for  writing

essays”

Enter  [hint] in the search string. Make sure you use square brackets. This will include all Enter [hint] possible forms of the word (both singular and plural forms in the case of nouns) 1.

2.

 After the [hint] enter a full stop followed by [n*] – this will restrict the search to hint(s) as a

noun 3.

Click on the context context.. From the drop-down menu below choose prep.ALL.

4.

Restrict the context to one word to the right of the node word (=key word)

Results 

Which preposition is most common? Study the examples. Are there any differences in the way the prepositions are used?

 

Task 2 : Collocations Think of the word pairs your students may find difficult (e.g. injury / wound, house / home). 1.

What are the different parts-of-speech parts-of-speech (POS) associated associated with each word?

Looking up collocates If the word you want to examine is a noun, look up verbs, adjectives and    _____ and  _______________ ____________  __  If the word you want to examine is a verb, look up ______________________ ____________________ __ and ________________  If the word you want to examine is an adjective, look up ______________________ ____________________ __ and ________________ 

2. Now search search for for the collocat collocations ions of of each each word. word.

 Associated POS 1 _____ _____ Word 1  ____________   ______ ______ 

Word 2  ____________   ______ ______ 

What is the difference between [v*] and [vv*] ? 

Associated Associated POS 2 _____ 

 

Task 3: Synonyms 1.

What synonyms can you find for the adjective wonderfu l? What is their frequency? frequency?

2.

What is the difference in the use of these synonyms across different sub-corpora?

Spoken

ratio

Academic

ratio