The powerpoint presentation from today's class is downloadable here. Don't forget to visit the wiki to compare your answers to the noun phrase homework task.Incidentally, not sure if any of you are interested in etymology, but I looked up the phrase "buy the farm" on an online etymology dictionary and got this entry, which claims that it dates back to the second world war and has ironic associations with the idea of returning to a safe and prosperous life (which echoes Khaled's suggestion that "buy the farm" should mean the opposite of "die").
Finally, for lazy Mo's benefit, here's a link to my previous post on free access to online corpora.
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