[etni] [FWD: Re: Help with word usage]


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Subject: Re: Help with word usage
From: Tina Waldman <wald@xxxxxxxxxxx>

In the BNC corpus - educative occurs with a frequency of 65 in 100 million 
words, and educational 5,809 times.
Typical collocates of educative are purpose, experience, process - so it 
looks like the adjectives function in a similar way, but educative occurs 
much less frequently and therefore there may be pragmatic restrictions.

Best
Tina Waldman


Patricia wrote:
> I've been having an ongoing discussion with one of my yud bet
> students about the word 'educative'.
> Does anyone know if there is a difference in usage between
> the two adjectives 'educational' and 'educative'.
> Is one American and the other British perhaps?


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