Wednesday 23 November 2011

Just The Word


WHAT is Just The Word?

Just the Word is an online word or phrase finder to provide various aids to learners when they encountered some difficulties. This website is a better mean than online dictionary, as it's function is not just limited to words meaning or thesaurus, but it also help learners in writing as it provides the service of 'Learner's Errors'. This new function provides opportunities for learners to figure our various kind of errors made by people and of different languages.


Apart from that, this website also provides a list of combinations of words for the lexical word that we are searching for. It lists down a variety of categories such as Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition and so forth, and it shows us a list of word expressions or combinations that we frequently use in modern English. From there, we can a wide relations of meaning for that certain word. Besides that, this website also shows us how strong that word is used with certain partners or collocations. The green bar besides the word is the indicator of how frequently or strong that word is joined with another particular word.

HOW?

1. Go to the following website!
http://www.just-the-word.com/

    

2. Enter the word/ phrase.   

 
3. A list of word relations is shown (Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition and so forth)













ADVANTAGES:

(a) It is FREE!
(b) Provides different categories or forms for a word.
(c) Display some examples of sentences.
(d) More choices and services (i.e. Two modes are provided: Thesaurus and Learner's Error)


 LIMITATIONS:

(a)  None discovered yet.


                                                                          

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