What is Corpus? How to use it?

Our second post will be about Language Awareness Task based on Corpus! So what is corpus?

corpus, plural corpora A collection of linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech. The main purpose of a corpus is to verify a hypothesis about language - for example, to determine how the usage of a particular sound, word, or syntactic construction varies. Corpus linguistics deals with the principles and practice of using corpora in language study. A computer corpus is a large body of machine-readable texts

What is skell?

Skell is a type of corpus web site and it is very easy to use making it student friendly.

To use it you just type the word you want to see in a sentence and just a mouse click then many sentences will be in front of you.
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And our homework this week was to use corpus and make a worksheet on it. We did a worksheet with my partner Aslı Zeynep, You guys can click here for her blog