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[Collocations #2]
FOCUS: Words that typically go together (as collocations)
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises:

1) Search for "amount*" in the corpus; which of the following adjectives does it collocate with? (Sort concordances by LEFT word.)
huge
great
large
all of them

2) Search for "depression" in the corpus; which of the following adjectives does it collocate with? (Sort concordances by LEFT word.)
large
huge
great
all of them

3) Search for "idea" in the corpus; which of the following adjectives does it collocate with? (Sort concordances by LEFT word.)
nice
good
great
all of them

4) Search for "art" in the corpus; which of the following adjectives does it collocate with? (Sort concordances by LEFT word.)
fine
nice
refined
all of them

5) Search for "stale"; according to the corpus results can both "bread" and "news" be stale? (Sort concordances by RIGHT word.)
no, only "bread" can be stale
no, only "news" can be stale
yes, both "bread" and "news" can be stale

6) Search for "handsome" in the corpus; which of the following is NOT used as a collocate of "handsome"? (Sort concordances by RIGHT word.)
man
woman
dog

7) Search for "repeal" in the corpus; when used as a noun it is typically followed by which of the following? (Sort concordances by RIGHT word.)
the prepostion "of"
the prepostion "for"
the definite article ("the")
nothing (Ø)

8) According to the corpus results do you typically "do an effort", "make an effort", or "create an effort"?
do
make
create
all of them


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