Prepositions 1 (adjective + preposition) | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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FOCUS: The use of prepositions after adjectives
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises.

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1) In the corpus, which of the following prepositions is most commonly used after the adjective "true"?
about
for
of

2) Which of the following prepositions is typically used after the adjective "excited"?
over
about
on

3) When followed by the preposition "by", what word class is "excited" typically part of?
verb
adjective
noun

4) Search for "feel sorry" in the corpus; which of the following prepositions typically follows the expression?
on
at
for

5) Search for "sorry for" and "sorry about"; which comes closest in meaning to "synes synd på"?
sorry for
sorry about
neither

6) Which of the three prepositions most commonly follows "different" in the corpus?
than
from
to

7) Based on the searches in the foregoing question, which of the following statements is true?
only "different from" and "different to" have similar meanings
only "different from" and "different than" have similar meanings
"different from", "different to", and "different than" have similar meanings

8) Based on the corpus search results, which of the following statements is true about the expression "different than"?
"different than" is most commonly found in UK texts
"different than" is most commonly found in US texts
"different than" is never found in UK texts


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