My housemate just showed me how to switch off the fire alarm in the kitchen in case that it sounds for no reason. Then I asked him “Can I do the same with the one in my room?” Is it correct to use “with” in my sentence? Should I use “as “ or “to”? Please … Read more
Do you have any idea for better collocation? So I chose decided to study chemical engineering at the university to pursue my passion since at high school we just studied basic concepts. Answer I believe basic concepts to be perhaps the most suitable and common collocation in that context. Alternatives include fundamental concepts and the … Read more
Here is the full sentence: “Despite the fluidity of this trope, in the middle of the twentieth century, it briefly stabilized into a distinct shape”. Thanks for the help! Answer Yes, it’s a valid collocation, though “stabilize to/into” shows up in Ngram only fairly recently, from around 1920-1940. Here are some examples it turns up: … Read more
thank you for answering my question. I was learning “bearing” with all its collocations, and there I learned that it can be used to describe the way in which someone move/stand/behave. I recalled that “refinement” can also be used to express one’s way of behaving. So I was thinking whether if it’s possible to form … Read more
Are there rules to matching words with savvy? Answer I collected all combinations of X+savvy from the Corpus of Contemporary American English that occur at least twice. I then performed a collexeme analysis to see which elements are most strongly associated with savvy. The first fifteen words returned as significant are shown below: COLLEX CORP.FREQ … Read more
I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example: Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the roof of a building … Read more
In legal talk, specifically regarding criminals, it is standard usage to call someone who has broken the law several times a “repeat offender.” However, I don’t understand why such a person wouldn’t be called a “repeated offender.” Indeed, I have found somewources that use “repeated offender,” but these sources appeared to be English-language newspapers from … Read more
There is a sentence: Negative comments were left out. Can I say: Negative comments were missed out. ? What is general different between miss out and left out ? I’m not sure which tags I should include. Is collocation OK? Answer Leave out means to fail to include something or someone; omit. Miss out means … Read more
I am a data scientist who has a question about collocations based on a book I am reading. The book is “Feature Engineering for Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques for Data Scientists” by Alice Zheng, Amanda Casari. In chapter 3, regarding working with text data and natural language processing, the authors state: “Collocations are more … Read more
When we want to mean ” lessen the intensity of the feelings” ，we often use the phase “calm someone down”. However,a few days ago, I heard somebody say something like this ‘‘Ever after my mom passed away,my feelings of missing her often make me shed tears. The only way to relieve my feelings is frequent … Read more
