The Verb “Seem” – A Corpus-Based Approach
The Verb “Seem” – A Corpus-Based Approach

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a short corpus-based analysis of the verb “seem”. The verbs are very important components of the language and they have received much linguistic attention. The verb “seem” is one of the linking verbs. The definitions for this paper are from Longman online, Macmillan online, and Collins COBUILD English Dictionary and the corpus is extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC). The verb “seem” is analyzed in terms of different syntactic structures of use.

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