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[Hater Depot]

I see Koreans mixing these up all the time, but I have no idea how to explain the difference at all.

Can someone help me out? Google certainly didn't.

[Woland]

I can't tell you the difference either and I suspect that it can't be reduced to simple rules. But your students would be on the way to discovering the differences if you create concordances for each form and compare them.

Go to Tom Cobb's Compleat Lexical Tutor (http://132.208.224.131/) and use the concordance programs, with the corpus set to "All of the above', giving you a 4 million word corpus of mixed British and American, spoken and written English to work from.

See work by Tim Johns on 'data-driven learning' for how to turn concordance material into lesson plans (i.e., google his name and the term in quotes).

EDIT: In addition, I would add that my impression is that each of these forms has multiple functions, another fact that learners need to discover and might be able to do so with well-designed corpus-based materials.