I had first known the existence of Corpus last year, and I was fascinated about the system. For all I knew then was that such marvelous system must cost a lot to acquire. But since Thursday Ms. Lai introduced us two concordancers which I found really useful, I am surprised to find them free on line. We should all seize the great opportunity to make the best use of them. They are some kind of search engine that help you to learn from native speakers’ language usage. For example, if we’d like distinguish the difference between the words “big” and “large”, just type the words onto the engine. Through searching the corpus, we learn the common and different usages such as both of them are used to describing the size of an object or large often go with “amount of.
I believe these websites will help greatly to our writing and language collocation, avoiding grammar mistake or any misuse of language.
Useful Concordancers
1. VLC CONCORDANCER
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk
2. Online Concordancer by Tom Cobb
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/
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