Assignment #4: Learn how to use COCA

We will work on the exercises described in:

• "Collocations (Student).pdf"
• "COCA_Worksheet(student)-final.pdf"

Let's try the following.

1. Find out which of the two forms below are more frequent in the COCA:
   1. digitized – digitalized
   2. comprehensive study – thorough study
   3. present research – current research
2. Can do a study and make a study be used as synonyms? Look them up in the COCA to investigate how they are used.
3. Using only the Academic part of the COCA, investigate the word work preceded by a verb in 1-2 positions to the left. Does it occur more often as a verb or as a noun? When it occurs as a noun, what are the most frequent verbs used with it?
4. Again using the Academic part of the COCA, investigate which verbs usually precede and which verbs usually follow the word data.