#12 BBC message board

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Discussion: Large vs Big

• Message 1lazy88bone (U14024807) , Yesterday
  Excuse me, Could anyone tell me how to depart with these two words?
• Message 2 - posted by AussieLexie (U13880784) , Yesterday
  They are synonyms although Large is often used to mean Bigger than usual? AL

Comment:

• It's a simple language learners' community which I think. No more but quite efficiently responding lots of discussion.
• The linking speed is so slow that drove me crazy indeed :P

#4 Comment

This is my first hearing about the NTNU Concordancer and Collocation Retrieval System(CCRS). It's quite interesting that you can search the different common usage of foreigners' language while it just list them on the board. I can know immediately when I want to see if my article is correct or not, but I'm not easy to create a sentence which I have no idea about that. However, a dictionary will be much useful when I try to link some synonyms together. After all, I think those tools are good enough for a learner to use, while they need to know the best usage of these tools. Lack of knowledge about vocabulary is my greatest difficulty when I used these tools. It let me feel nothing to do from these tools, and I might miss some wrong to exam.

#3 Large v.s. Big

When it comes to depart with "big" and "large", it's difficult for us who using the Chinese dictionary to explain. However, there is some rule whenever we use this two words.
"Big" is often talked about the greatful of a thing or an abstract situation, such as a big conference, a big festival or a big pig something like that.
"Large" is used to describe the amount or quantity of something like money or other objects, and it'll be quite concreted and countable for instance. For example, they can be a large expenditures, a large sedan and a large waterfall. In addition, "large" may be much formaller than "big".