Concordancers Can Help

Sometimes the right way to use a word in a sentence can elude students. Fortunately, concordancers can help resolve any uncertainty.  Users enter words, phrases or structures into the concordancer which outputs a list of all instances of the word, phrase, or distributed structures along with immediate contexts, from a corpus or text collection. Many concordancers are available on the Internet. My favourite is the Université du Québec à Montréal Lextutor concordancer. Click the image below to try it. The interface may seems frightening, but don't worry because all you need to do to get a concordance is enter is the keyword(s) and choose a Corpus . Once you get better at it you can try out the options and other controls. 



http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html

Here is sample output so you know what to expect:



Concordancer Sample Output