week3-1) Class Activities

Collocation

pay bill          make promise      give message
pay dept       make mistake     give discount
pay costs     make money      give expenses
pay service   make deal          give calculation
pay lunch      make invoice      give presentation




Large Corpus and Online Concordancers


1. Just the Word (good for finding collocation) http://www.just-the-word.com/

2.Google We can find out people prefer 'more tasty' to 'tastier' in google.

3.Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)  http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/