A Comparative Analysis of Sorry for and Sorry about in Two Corpora

The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis Sorry for and about in the COCA BNC. When it comes COCA, interesting point out that types show same pattern TV/movie fiction genres academic genre, whereas they different blog, web, magazine, newspaper spoken genre. With respect BNC, significant note genre magazine misc, non-academic genres. It can thus be inferred these two are synonymously used, but slightly from each other their use. A major furthest type nearest further clearly shows people most preferable one Americans, followed by Mr., me, Mrs., order. shows, on hand, dinner lunch, agent, that, descending indicates expression being among interrupting, having, getting, making, also calling, leaving (Sorry having), worth noting only nouns (Mr. things) collocations both for. pointing eleven thirteen seven gerunds linked This turn suggests interchangeably somewhat