Thursday, February 2, 2017

Collocations

A collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur. Collocations can help to write and speak natural-sounding English. In academic writing collocations can be used to make the text more enjoyable to read.

List of collocations:
  • fall into categories
  • drawing a distinction between
  • taking into consideration
  • making reference to
  • raising the question
  • assessing the significance 
  • laying emphasis on
  • lending support to
  • holding firmly
  • drawing an analogy
  • drawing parallels
  • presenting the case for
  • puting forward the argument
  • taking up / adopt sth.
  • arguing convincingly
  • drawing attention to
  • which / that suggesting
  • briefly summarize
  • disagreeing profoundly
  • driving the conclusion
 

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