About ICEBox

Traditional grammars have relied on ‘made-up’ examples. Englicious is different.

Instead of example sentences like

• The cat sat on the mat

we have examples like

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Our examples come from natural language corpora. They have been spoken or written by real people. Grammar is the study of the structure of actual English or it is nothing!

Often examples are selected and presented in real time using our ICEBox database technology. This technology is also part of our ICECUP software supplied to academic linguists.

You can see this in operation. If you reload this page you will see different examples.