Tomboy

Students use the 40 example sentences of tomboy in SkELL to answer the following questions. 
Each group skims the sentences, quickly picks out examples for their three questions, and reports back in just a sentence or two.


1. Is tomboy used as a noun or adjective?
2. Which articles or determiners come before tomboy?
3. What adjectives describe tomboy?
4. What nouns follow tomboy (e.g. stage, persona)?
5. What verbs go with tomboy?
6. Are tomboys usually children, teenagers, or adults?
7. Do the examples show tomboys growing out of it or staying tomboys?
8. Which examples sound positive about tomboys?
9. Which examples sound negative?
10. Which examples mention famous characters or cultural references?
11. Which examples are personal (“I was a tomboy”)?
12. Is there any example that looks odd or unnatural?