Common use of Analysis Clause in Contracts

Analysis. In this section we present the results of our corpus analysis. We begin Section 4.1. with patterns of agreement with the verb 'to be' in the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE), ignoring te differences between the national varieties. In Section 4.1. we shall give a general description of patterns of agreement with the selected collective nouns, so as to get a rough idea about general tendencies regardless of which national variety of English is involved. That is the reason why we shall be using the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, ignoring at this point the variation between the different national varieties. Although this decision has its weaknesses, i.e. there is no way to control the relative proportions of patterns in the different national varieties, this is intended to give a preliminary general idea about the patterns that could be found in each of the national varities to be studied in more detail below (Section 4.2) In Section 4.2. our focus will be on the variation between AmE and BrE. For this analysis we shall again use the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE). We shall compare the use of singular and plural verbs with the collective nouns and see if any differences occur between these two national varietes. In Section 4.3 we will examine the results from the spoken media from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and find out if the patterns which occur in Section 4.2 match the results from the spoken media at least for AmE.