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4. To start a simple search, type the word you are interested in (e.g., elusive) into the search 
field and press search. The search will return all examples with elusive. To look at the con-
cordance data (specific examples of elusive) press the word elusive in the Search results 
frame.
5. To look for a word in all its forms, use square brackets, e.g. [denigrate]. The search will return 
examples containing denigrate, denigrated, denigrates, denigrating.
6. The asterisk (*) can be used as a wild card, i.e. instead of any word. Type into the search 
field any word preceded by * set off by a space and press “Search” to see what words 
most frequently go with the chosen word. In the following example, the word propensity 
is preceded by * *; the results show what two most immediate words can precede this 
word.

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7. If you want to know what preposition follows the word propensity, type propensity into the 
search field followed by the tag for all prepositions [i*]
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and press search. To look at the con-
cordance data (specific examples of propensity+preposition) press one of the collocations in 
the Search results frame.
8. If you want to know what verbs can precede the word propensity within a particular range, 
press “Collocates”, type into the text field the symbol for the verb tag [v*] and using drop 
down lists with numbers define your range, i.e. the number of words you want to search to 
the left and to the right of your word. By default it is four tokens on both sides, so if left un-
changed it will capture potential examples of words four tokens before and four tokens after 
propensity, i.e. words which appear in any of the following positions 4 3 2 1 PROPENSITY 1 2 
3 4. If you are looking for the verbs that precede propensity, set the range as zero to the right; 
choose the number of words to the left of propensity you are interested in and press search, 
for example, 2 1 PROPENSITY 0 . To read the examples, click one of the verbs in the search 
results window. 
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To learn what part of speech tags COCA uses, click on the question mark symbol (?) to the right of the 
POS List and in the lower right frame of the COCA interface click on the hyperlink “Click here for a list of 
these part of speech tags.” Alternatively, place the cursor in the text field and choose one of the tags avail-
able on POS List to automatically insert the tag into the text box.

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