EEE Week12 Assignment - 2012103007 김정현

We can using the word ‘respond’ when we make a return by some action as if in answer. Likewise, the word of ‘reply’ could use answer in words or to make answer in word or writing. These two words ‘respond’ and ‘reply’ were have something in common in meaning. However, these two words have some differences in usage, using formed. We can find differences in these words, I examined 100 KWIC concordance lines from The Corpus of Contemporary American English word. The most popular using phrase was [subject(noun/pronoun)]to respond [object/adh (Davies, 2008-). This technique revealed typical phrases in which the expressions “respond” and “reply” usually occur.

The word respond is more often related to the some action as if in answer and the respond more often using in writing, academic verb]. The word respond using with phrase was [preposition] respond to [object/adverb]. We can find similar thing that respond often shows about someone action or answer to something in situations. However, the word reply is different to position ‘to’ with respond. For example in the sample phrase “reply to my posting”, “reply to this letter”. The reply used with ‘to’ and it was position the end of sentence.

Respond takes a preposition behind respond like ‘respond to’, ‘respond with’. Over 30 of the example concordance lines appeared in the form “respond to” and another 5 were in the phrase “respond with”. The other concordance lines appeared in the form “respond and”, “respond by”. Reply, over 15 of the example concordance lines determiner before reply. The many phrases were in auxiliary verb before reply. For example, “how do you reply to that?”, “I’ll reply to question”. Both these words reply and respond usage with phrases respond [to] and reply [to]. Both words are using with preposition ‘to’ behind the word.

The corpus shows many differences in the word between reply and respond. When we confused in writing and speaking structure in English, through corpus program, we can assort these two words usage.

Reference:

Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 million words, 1990-present. Available online at http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/.