It's my first experience of using corpus-based reference tools. I'm thrilled to learn about them. They're more useful than I thought. However, when I tried out Online Concordancer by Dr. Tom Cobb for the first time, it's a little bit complicated for a new-learner. After using it for several times, it's useful anyway!
Concordancers and collocation retrieval systems help a lot in the learning of word and phrase patterns. By simply a few clicks, we can clearly recognize or organize the common usage of particular vocabularies through hundreds of texts, the function which dictionaries can't provide.
Still, the basic definitions, example sentences, the phonetic symbols of vocabularies in dictionaries are significant for the foundation of new words learning therefore can not be replaced by corpus-based reference tools.
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I think you're quite right, Annie. A concordancer could never replace a dictionary. I guess these two kinds of tools just complement each other.
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