EXERCISE 7

Concordancer Exercises

Mini-Research Question 7:

Can ‘yet’ be used at the beginning of a sentence?

First go to http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/ and find the "Web Concordancer" in the middle of the page.

Type in the word "yet" in the "Keyword" box. Don’t worry about the first box , which is set at "equal to" , just now. After you’ve typed in "yet" hit the "Go" icon.

1. Can ‘yet’ be used at the beginning of a sentence?

2. What does it mean in that position?

To help you with this you can see the complete paragraph where the word occurs by clicking on ‘yet’ in the concordances. Click, for example, on ‘yet’ in Line 7.Read the paragraph. What do you think ‘yet’ means?

Go back to the concordances, now click on ‘yet’ in Line 19, have you got a better idea of the meaning?

Finally to help you some more, on the same page as the fuller text it says "Net Dictionary entries for yet" Click on ‘yet’. You’ll seven meanings for ‘yet’, which one refers to the ‘yet’ that you’ve been looking at?

Remember to look out for the answers which will be given in Exercise 8

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Key to Exercise 6 Research Question:

1. Meaning 2 2. Meaning 2 3. Meaning 1 4. Meaning 2

6. Meaning 1 7. Meaning 1 8. Meaning 1 9. Meaning 1

Note that ‘outlook’ NEVER means ‘appearance’.