Edited by Patrick Andrews, Friday, 15 June 2012, 09:47
During Saturday's E303 tutorial, we were practising using the Monoconc concordancer and tried comparing "bad" and "poor" as two words that can often be synonyms. The main differences we found were:
- the common collocation of "not bad"
- the common use of "poor" to express sympathy - eg "poor little thing/poor dear"
Exploring the BNC
During Saturday's E303 tutorial, we were practising using the Monoconc concordancer and tried comparing "bad" and "poor" as two words that can often be synonyms. The main differences we found were:
- the common collocation of "not bad"
- the common use of "poor" to express sympathy - eg "poor little thing/poor dear"