martes, 18 de abril de 2017

Task 5: Corpora

I have searched the expression with a preposition: "be happy with"

On the dictionary Linguee, we can see the differents meenings of happy in spanish. Then, you can see the section: external sources. Here, there is a list of thirty examples of sentences in English in which we can see the expression. Next to each example of sentence in English, we find it also in Spanish. It's great to see what kind of contexts can be used.

On the dictionary British National Corpus, is focused exclusively on the context of the expression you are looking for. In this case, be happy with offers more than one hundred examples. Each of the examples specifies what kind of context it is: religion, interview, meeting...

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