Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Meaning analysis and comparison of the prepositions around and about
2.1. Meaning of around
2.2. Meaning of about
2.3. Comparison of the meanings of around and about
3. Verb collocation analysis of around and about
3.1. Corpus data
3.2. Analysis of verb collocates with around and about
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
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