Instructions for completing Assignment #3:
1) Investigate the use of the following words in
two
or three of the following concordancers: the Great Books concordance,
MICASE, the Hong Kong concordance, the Brown Corpus, and Collins CoBuild (click
on links in your syllabus):
Novel, effect, affect, and actually:
| Word | Based on the data | Copy and Paste Entries from MICASE, Collins CoBuild, the Brown Corpus, or the Great Books Concordance. |
| Novel | 1. Novel should normally be classified as what part of speech? 2. Find examples of novel used as an adjective. | |
| Effect |
1.
Effect should normally be classified as what part of speech? 2. Find examples of effect used as a verb. |
|
Affect |
1. Affect
should be
classified as what part of speech? 2. Find examples of affect used as a verb. |
|
| Actually | 1. Actually
should be
classified as what part of speech? 2. Find at least two examples of various uses of Actually in one of the concordancers. |
Hint: Go to the Great Books Concordancer. |
2) Find at least five examples of two different uses
of novel, affect, effect, and actually. For example, is actually
always used as an adverb? That is one of the reasons I had included the
Great Books Concordance in this assignment. Unfortunately, it has been
taken down, but I have written to the David Hume society to try to get a
concordance of A Treatise of Human Nature so that you can
investigate how actually is used in this great work.
3) Write a three- to four-page summary and analysis of your findings. You must attach the examples you found in each of the concordances you used. Do not just include examples without any explanation. Please analyze and summarize your findings. What have you learned with respect to novel, effect, affect, and actually? Is there a difference between the way actually is used in MICASE and the way it is used in SHAKESPEARE'S plays? Is there a discrepancy between what English grammar books prescribe with respect to the use of novel, effect, affect, actually and the way people use these words?
(Total points 40).