Thursday 18 March 2010

Discovering different word forms in English

Words in English take different forms in different contexts.

For example,the word assemble(verb) has the following word forms:

  • assemble: I will assemble a complete list of creditors and outstanding balances.
  • assembled: I assembled a complete list of creditors and outstanding balances.
  • assembles: He assembles the list of creditors and outstanding balances.
  • assembling: He is assembling the list of creditors and outstanding balances.

Download this Excel file to review all the word forms extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC). If you are using Check My Words, you can simply click on the "Word Family" button to see all the word forms.

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