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Welcome to the last day of Grammar class!

Did you know that this class is also designed to help you build your vocabulary?

Today we will explore using a corpus on Lextutor

[|www.lextutor.ca] Click on concordance. Click on English at the top of the page. This should bring you this website http;//www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html

Using the Corpus: Put the word you are looking up into the keyword space. In the next drop down menu, choose, "All of above". Click the yellow Get concordance button a the bottom. This will give you the KWIC output for your word.

Look up Objection 1) What verbs are used with objection? 2) What adjectives are often used before objection? 3) What prepositions commonly follow objection? 4) What word chunks is objection commonly part of? 5) What is the most common word form in the objection family? 6) What different meanings do you notice for the objection family in the KWIC output?