[Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO

[coffey at cli.unipi.it]

Ha ha .... thought I'd better laugh since noone else has! Another great song
phrase with the verb BE is that old classic "is you is, or is you ain't my
baby?" (some of my students write that sort of thing as well).

Steve Coffey.
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Quoting njbruce <njbruce at hku.hk>:

> Hi Chris,
> The Frank Sinatra corpus threw up a much higher incidence of Do and Be, often
> in close proximity to each other.
> Nigel
>
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> CRuehlemann at aol.com [CRuehlemann at aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:19 AM
> To: CORPORA at uib.no
> Subject: [Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO
>
> Can anybody point me to a corpus study investigating whether the primary
> verbs BE, HAVE, and DO are used more frequently as auxiliary verbs or main
> verbs and whether register/genre may play a role in that? (I can't seem to
> find relevant information in corpus grammars.)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chris
>




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