Table 1:begin/start patterns in the BNC
Fiction | Non-fiction | |||||
frequency | per million | log-likelihood | frequency | per million | log-likelihood | |
start | ||||||
begin | ||||||
wordcount | 18601555 | |||||
Fiction | Non-fiction | |||||
frequency | per million | log-likelihood | frequency | per million | log-likelihood | |
start to | ||||||
start -ing | ||||||
begin to | ||||||
begin -ing | ||||||
Collocates: fiction | ||||||
start to | ||||||
start -ing | ||||||
begin to | ||||||
begin -ing | ||||||
Collocates: non-fiction | ||||||
start to | ||||||
start -ing | ||||||
begin to | ||||||
begin -ing | ||||||