Analysis
- out of a total of 628 instances of "look", 230 instances of them are followed
by the preposition "at" which makes up around 37%, thus "at" seems to
be a strong collocate after "look"
- when comparing the nouns taken by "watch" and "look", it seems that
"watch" carries an implicit meaning of attention extension, e.g. "watch
gorillas in the wild" and "watch the activities"; "look" seems to
be a more temporary thing which often involves a sudden change of direction in which
people are looking, e.g. "look at the subject" and "look at the scale"
- "look" also conveys the meaning of appearance, e.g. "it would look
nice" and "that would look funny"
- "look" seems more productive than "watch" in terms of meaning
- it seems that "look" is almost always followed by prepositions like
"at", "for", "into", "after", "out",
"on", "of" no matter when it is used as a noun or verb whereas
"watch" is not very often followed by prepositions
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