Monolingual concordance exercises

1. The following figure shows a concordance for the search term 'benefits'. Study the words to the left of the search term. What do you notice about the types of adjectives used to describe 'benefits'? Now study the words to the right of the search term. What collocates do you notice here?

2. The following concordance is for the search term 'candidate'. Look to the left of the search term to try to determine what type of candidate is typically discussed in a job advertisement? Now look to the right of the search term. What do you notice about the types of verbs used?

3. The following concordance is for the plural search term 'candidates'. How do these examples differ from the ones shown above for the singular search term 'candidate'?

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