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What is the main focus of corpus-based grammar?

• Prescribing language rules

• Analyzing real-world language use from corpora

• Teaching grammar through memorization

• Using only literary texts for analysis

Which of the following best describes empirical data in corpus-based studies?

• Theoretical assumptions about language

• Data obtained from laboratory experiments

• Real-world language usage collected from corpora

• Intuition-based observations

In corpus-based studies, frequency refers to:

• The number of different languages in a corpus

• How often a word or grammatical structure appears in a corpus

• The number of pages in a corpus

• The number of researchers analyzing the corpus

What is a collocation?

• A single word with multiple meanings

• A grammatical error found in corpora

• A group of words that frequently appear together

• A rare vocabulary item

Which of the following is an example of lexico-grammar?

• The use of punctuation in academic writing

• The relationship between vocabulary and grammatical structures

• The development of new languages over time

• The study of phonetics in spoken language

Corpus-based grammar follows a prescriptive approach, focusing on how language should be used.

• True

• False

Syntactic structures refer to how words and phrases are arranged to form sentences.

• True

• False

The use of corpus-based grammar is limited to linguistic research and has no applications in language teaching.

• True

• False

In corpus-based studies, variation refers to differences in language use depending on factors like context, region, and genre.

• True

• False

Lexical bundles are frequent, fixed sequences of words that function together as a unit.

• True

• False