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viousparts, the idiomatic principle proposed by Sinclair is verified to a certain degree. Theunderresearched phrases, consisting of mainly the grammatical lexes are ubiquitous inauthentic language situation. In the above table, the contrastive analysis is available, inwhich only those meaningful as well as highly-frequent ones are listed. Whatsignificantly delivered from this table is that most of the phrase frames in the textbookcorpus are those at the same time the most recurrent ones in native corpus. It is themost conspicuous for three-phrase-frames, with all the concordanced meaningfulframes in textbooks, altogether thirteen, calculated high-frequently in native corpora.Six checked four-phrase-frames are also contained in native corpora as well as most ofthe five-phrase-frames. The unified frequency rank of frames, regardless of different tokens in corpora, consolidates the rationality of fitting them to teaching syllabus.Although some of them are always focused on by instructors, they are nearly all thetraditional formulaic phrases, which are far beyond the full scope of real language use.Grammatical collocates among the searched frames accounts for a large percent, whichalso indicates the potential to teach the grammatical lexis in the form of phrase frameinstead of viewing them in isolation.

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Conclusion

Composed of sets of similar variants of an n-gram, phrase frame, a meaningfulterm extracted from the kfNgram, is concerned about the investigation of all emergingdiscontinuous word combinations and the phrases belonging to them. The research ofphrase frames is overlooked while the traditional collocational studies focus on thepatterns of recurrent contiguous word sequences. In addition, previous studies on wordcombinations usually focus on the semantic patterns of collocates, few have tried tocombine the word sequences with the teaching application. This study, therefore, is atentative study designed to explore the usage condition of phrase frames in nativecorpus and textbook corpus, proposing the necessity of inclusion of frames in teachingmaterial, with frequency of occurrence and meaning as the fundamental standard toextract.By ways of meticulous concordance and choice of phrase frames, the author listsall the highly-used and meaningful phrase frames in native corpus, proved to be notonly providing a Referenced phrase frame lists when compared with those in currenttextbook corpus but also a referenced one for future comparison of frames in othertextbooks. Three to five frames and all the phrases excluding those meaningless andnon-compositional ones in tables are showed specifically and comprehensivelyaccompanied by their frequency and rank. Those frames appeared frequently in nativecorpus are reliable referenced lists for both the current study and further similarresearches. Frames in textbook corpus have been exhausted in order to obtain anoverall list to do the comprehensive comparison. It turns out that these recurrent phraseframes in two corpora are similar to a certain degree which proves the highlyconsistency in the frequent phrases. That is to say, more than half of the highlyfrequent frames are the same in two corpora and their relative ranks in frequency areroughly equal, which is beyond any researchers’ prediction before the concordance.
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