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