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FOCUS: Form and function of words.

Use the corpus to solve the following exercises:

1) Search for "there" in the corpus; if you sort concordance by RIGHT word what function does "there" have in the first 5 lines?
adverb - adverbial
adverb - premodifier
existential "there" - grammatical subject

2) If you sort concordance by LEFT word what function does "there" have in the first 10 lines?
adverb - adverbial
adverb - premodifier
existential "there" - grammatical subject

3) Search for "smoking" in the corpus; if you sort concordance by KEYWORD what function does "smoking" have in line 9?
adjective - premodifier
verb - part of present progressive
verb - -ing participle introducing a non-finite clause

4) Search for "wear* white" in the corpus; if you sort concordance by KEYWORD what function does "white" have in line 1?
adjective - premodifier
adjective - head of adjective phrase
noun - head of noun phrase

5) What function does "white" (in the same search) have in the line 2?
adjective - premodifier
adjective - head of adjective phrase
noun - head of noun phrase

6) Search for "the homeless" in the corpus; if you sort concordance by LEFT word what function does "homeless" have in line 2?
adjective - premodifier
noun - head of noun phrase
adjective - head of adjective phrase

7) What function does "homeless" (in the same search) have in the line 3?
adjective - premodifier
noun - head of noun phrase
adjective - head of adjective phrase

8) Search for "little" and "small" in the corpus; which of the two collocates with "things"?
"little"
"small"
both


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