monolithpl / verb-finder

Highlight all verb forms in texts. Perfect for building grammar awareness in ESL students

verb finder

Highlight all verb forms in texts. Perfect for building grammar awareness in ESL students. Analyze your text for verbs / verb forms here

features

• highlights and lists all verbs forms in a given text
• very fast lookups using a slightly modified version of Steve Hanov's succinct bit string trie implementation
• fully client-side and portable - works offline, too!
• zero framework rubbish - pure vanilla javascript with zero overhead - tiny code with zero external dependencies
• responsive mobile-first layout

demo

check it out here

further reading

Read up on the usefulness of teaching students to notice grammar patterns here:

• Teaching ESL Students to "Notice" Grammar
• Using a Corpus-Based Lexicogrammatical Approach to Grammar Instruction in EFL and ESL Contexts
• Comparing ESL Learners' Attention To Grammar On Three Different Classroom Tasks
• Will corpus linguistics revolutionize grammar teaching in the 21st century?

implementation details

Read more about performance-first string lookups in javascript using trie-s here:

• Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file
• John Resig's Revised JavaScript Dictionary Search

MIT License

Copyright 2016 Wiktor Jakubczyc