Some examples of use of the previous link service: 1. To know what verbs can be used with the word 'opinion', use the option V obj N*
Among the results who get: - deliver opinion (13) - express opinion (218) - express opinion on (8) - form opinion (83) - give opinion (126) - give opinion on (11), etcetera and at this point you simply click on any of the results to see the phrases that include the wanted words (to see them in a context) 2. To know what adjectives are acceptable for the word "mystery", use the option ADJ N* 3. To know what preposition can be used with the verb "arrive", use the option V* PREP. The results: - arrive at (3605) - arrive in (2577) - arrive before (106) - arrive on (789) - arrive after (149) - arrive via (16) and what about "arrive to"? It's wrong! It's a mistake to use 'arrive to', isn't it? Well, here the American English Corpus: http://www.americancorpus.org/ The important thing about this one and the BNC one, is that the corpus are recent, I mean, contemporary. Here the wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_of_Contemporary_American_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Corpus Thanks, Pablo On 13 dic, 20:17, Pablo <[email protected]> wrote: > What about this: > > http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/ > > Thank you, > > Pablo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
