Working with Concordances

Today’s assignment is a continuation of our today’s work in the class. Using the Cobuild Corpus Concordancer you found out that uncountable nouns work with the word ‘much’ whether (während) the countable ones work with ‘many.’

Well, using the same concordancer, try to find out which words work with countable / uncountable nouns if you want to talk about a small number /amount of these .

E.g.: much time (uncountable). In the holidays I spent much time at the beach.

a little time (uncountable). Don’t hurry! We have a little time left.

Look up the following nouns: hour, train, minute, station (countable)/light, change (Kleingeld), money, bread, sugar, butter (uncountable)

8 thoughts on “Working with Concordances

  1. Hi, Eike. I can’t answer your question because you are using the wrong language.
    You’ll find your assignment tomorrow in form of a blog post.
    Bye,
    Mr Bosoanca

  2. Hi Robin.
    Nice to see that you are using this blog. A short language check:
    -common nouns are not capitalized, so you will have ‘class test’
    -‘for’ is not the preposition you need in this expression; you can check the Cobuild Concordance for the right one.
    -‘With regards’ you can write if your comment is on the Queen’s blog. So, something like ‘see you tomorrow’ or ‘bye’ or ‘love’ would fit much better.

    Good luck with the test.
    Mr Bosoanca

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