 Hello and welcome back. Let us look at the compare function in this video. With this function you can compare the collocates of two words. This can be useful to figure out slight differences between them. Pre-requisite for such a comparison is that both search terms have the same number of words. Let's look the two adjectives utter and sheer to demonstrate the comparison. To find out the difference in use, we must look at the collocating nouns. So, type the two words into the two search windows. Then add the adjective tag to utter, to exclude hits for the verb utter, and select the POS noun in the collocates box. Then select the span for the collocates to two words to the right. That should be enough for this query. To start the query click on compare words. As a result, the collocates are displayed in two tables, one for each word. Note that the collocating nouns are not sorted by frequency, but by ratio. A click on frequency can change the sorting method. The ratio display shows the relative frequency of a collocation compared to another. Take destruction, for example. Even though the number of occurrences of utter destruction is much larger than, for example, utter defeat or mess, those words are further up in the list. The reason for this is that destruction also occurs with sheer, whereas mess or defeat, and many other less frequent collocates, do not occur with sheer at all. The ratio, which is displayed in column 5, is calculated by dividing the frequency of word 1 by the frequency of word 2. For more information on the display and the data shown in the lists, click on help. Besides finding the most frequent or most distinctive collocates for both words, you can also obtain further information from such a list. In this case, and maybe you have noticed that already, most of the collocates occurring with utter are rather negative. The rest is up to you, and my recommendation is practice, practice, practice. I wish you all the best.