Essays about: "horrified"

Found 1 essay containing the word horrified.

  1. 1. Emotion Adjectives : A corpus study of the use of terrified, petrified and horrified in British and American English

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Elin Hagström; [2009]
    Keywords : British National Corpus; collocate s ; collocation s ; Corpus of Contemporary American English; emotion adjectives; horrified; near-synonyms; petrified; terrified.;

    Abstract : For many non-native speakers of English it can be difficult to distinguish semantic differences between near-synonyms. In order to create idiomatically correct sentences in a language it is important to know which word to use in a specific context. READ MORE