A Comparative Analysis of Impressed by and Impressed With in Two Corpora.

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that impressed by and impressed with are low similarity synonyms. A major point to note is that impressed by and impressed with show different patterns in all genres of the COCA (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/coca). It is interesting to note that impressed by and impressed with show the same pattern in the misc. genre of the BNC (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc), but they show a different pattern in six genres. It is significant that impressed by and impressed with show a high degree of similarity in the misc. genre, but do not show it in the academic genre. The COCA (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/coca) shows that only 13.63% of forty-four nouns are collocations of both impressed by and impressed with. Similarly, the BNC (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc) indicates that impressed by Mr. and impressed by arguments are the most frequently used types in the UK. The BNC (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc) further shows that impressed with home and impressed with Mr. are the most preferred collocations in the UK. Finally, the BNC (10, December 2021. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc) shows that only 2.5% of forty nouns are the collocation of both impressed by and impressed with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]