can and also

[kahhong]

Hello there,
Which one is correct?

1. I can also.....
OR
2. I also can....


Thank You

[Tdol]

They're both used, but 'can also' is much more common- there are 3612 examples in the British National Corpus against 54 for 'also can'.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

They're both used, but 'can also' is much more common- there are 3612 examples in the British National Corpus against 54 for 'also can'.

Google agrees:

Web Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 248,000,000 for "can also".

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 23,300,000 for "also can".

[Tdol]

Nice to see them in agreement.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

Nice to see them in agreement.

Ladies and Gentlemen, there's a lot of agreement in the room.

[Tdol]

Mike, do you use http:view.byu.edu? I love it- nice alternative to Google.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

Mike, do you use http:view.byu.edu? I love it- nice alternative to Google.

I use it occasionally, but it is mostly British. For me, Google satisfies 99% of my "does this exist" questions. I also find the BNC to be too small at times to produce meaningful differences in frequency.

[Tdol]

The American Bank of English is under construction. When complete, it would be nice to be able to run the two together to compare.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

The American Bank of English is under construction. When complete, it would be nice to be able to run the two together to compare.

Yes, that should be interesting. Do you know what size it will be?

A hundred million words seems like a lot of words (and it is), but Google now searches over 9 billion pages (with many words per page).

[Tdol]

They're aiming for something along the lines of the BNC: American National Corpus