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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

Many nouns and verbs have the same form, (which in Polish never takes place) for example: swim, drink, walk, kiss, look and smile. We can talk about water to drink and to water the flowers; time to go and to time a race; a paper to read and to paper a bedroom. Another substantial simplification is that adjectives can be used as verbs, for example, we warm our hands in front of a fire; if clothes are dirtied, they need to be cleaned and dried. Prepositions too are flexible, e.g. a sixty-yerar old man is nearing retirement; we can talk about a round of golf, cars, or drinks. What's more, English is an incredibly open language for the admission of new words and easy creation of compounds and derivatives.