EXERCISE 5
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Concordancer Exercises |
Mini-Research Question 5:
What common patterns occur
after the verb "prevent"?
First go to http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/ and find the
"Web Concordancer" in the middle of
the page.
Type in the word "prevent"
in the "Keyword" box. Don’t worry about the first box
, which is set at "equal to" , just now. After you’ve typed in
"prevent" hit the "Go" icon.
1. What common patterns occur
after the verb "prevent"?
To help you understand what a
‘pattern’ is, in the sentence:
"she
spends a lot of time on her studies"
the pattern is: "spend + noun+ on
+noun"
There are 178 different
examples of ‘prevent’, so we’ll keep it simple and just focus on:
Lines 33, 46, 60, 61,62 and 63.
Look after ‘prevent’, which
pattern do these examples have in common in these examples?
Remember to look out for
the answers which will be given with Exercise 6
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