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What to Follow "Make" and What to Follow "Do"--Corpus-Based Study on the De-Lexical Use of "Make" and "Do" in Native Speakers' and Chinese Students' Writing
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Fu, Zhuqin – Online Submission, 2006
To many Chinese students, learning the words such as "make" and "do" seems a piece of cake, yet learning how to use them appropriately is anther case. This paper aims to investigate Chinese learners' use of the verbs "make" and "do", two major representatives of high-frequency words from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Native Speakers, Grammar