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1) Search the corpus for the expressions "he don't" and "he doesn't". How many times does each of them occur?
2) In what kind of context / text is the expression "he don't" used?
3) Why do you think "he doesn't" has been chosen more often than "he don't"?
4) Browse through the hits of "the government" in the corpus. Does it take singular or plural concord? (Remember that you can sort the search result by "right word"; this makes it easier to browse through the hits.)
5) Search for "government has" and "government have" and give the number of occurrences of each.
6) In the first line of the occurrences of "government have" there is an obvious signal in the context that triggers plural concord; what is this signal? (Remember to sort concordance by "keyword".)
7) This signal indicates that Government in these contexts is looked upon as:
8) Which of the following can take plural concord only? ("everyone, "police", "money", "furniture") (Remember that you can sort the search result by "right word"; this makes it easier to browse through the hits.)
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