If you look up the word majority in a good English-English dictionary, you’ll find lots of different adjective + noun collocations. But, according to corpus data, which adjectives does majority tend to attract? Watch this short video and find out. Follow me on instagram for more: @luiz.otavio.barros
Textbooks sometimes overlook common language patterns that every advanced student should know. Case in point: be + not without + noun. Watch the video and pay attention to the corpus data and the examples: Follow me on instagram for me: @luiz.otavio.barros
Some dictionaries suggest congratulate on only, while others include examples with both congratulate on and congratulate for. What does corpus data suggest? Watch the video and find out. Follow me on instagram for more: @luiz.otavio.barros
December’s intuition post took me on a long and unintended trip down my own language-learning memory lane and brought back all sorts of recollections of the processes I went through as a language learner. Here’s a thought that’s been nagging at me over the past month:
How do I know the English I know today? How did I build up my own linguistic knowledge / competence / intuition?