 Hello and welcome back. In the following, I will discuss another useful search function, the collocates function. Collocates are words that occur together. Looking for collocates is something you will probably do a lot in your corpus research. In simple cases, this can be done by a word search with a subsequent look at the collocates section. This is a good choice if you are interested in all the collocates of a single word. However, with phrases as search items, the word function does not work. Take the search string carry out to illustrate this. And even a list search with wildcards or POS tags does not show all occurrences. For example, singular nouns will not be shown since they require a pre-modifier. Also passives, where the search phrase is often followed by a prepositional phrase will not be shown. In other words, not all relevant hits can be gathered. So, where as the list function finds exactly the string of words you entered into the search window. The collocates function finds words near another word. Let's illustrate this. To conduct a collocates search, select collocates in the search window, and then type your search string for example, carry out, into the box labeled, word phrase, and the collocate, in our case nouns in the collocate box. Underneath, you can define the collocations span. By default, the number of words is limited to four words to the left, and four words to the right, but it can also be restricted. When you are done, click on find collocates. As a result, the hits are displayed in list form and sorted by frequency. If you do not enter a POS tag in the second box, all parts of speech are searched for, and the result looks quite different. As the following example will show you, type in research with the POS tag for nouns, but do not choose a part of speech in the collocates box. If you click on find collocates, an asterisk is inserted automatically to look for all parts of speech. Now the collocates are grouped by parts of speech, and sorted by frequency, since you did not change the search window. Limit the search to any POS, or change any other settings. This is the same display as you would get by doing a word search. In this display, you could also easily switch to the results for the verb research. And clicking on the home symbol will direct you straight to the main page of the noun research. Which option you choose to search for collocates, depends on the search term. The span you are interested in, and your research question. Sometimes you will have to try several ways and conduct different queries to get the results you are happy and content with. So much for collocates, see you again soon.