Re: Help with collocations, please

"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Jun 2, 4:48?pm, LFS <la...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Django Cat wrote:
> > This fine morning I'm working on the e-learning project on studies 
> > skills for
> > Doctoral students I've been commissioned to develop. I'm writing about

> > how a
> > knowledge of collocations is essential to develop academic writing 
> > skills, and
> > I'm putting together a table of examples. (Collocations are words
which
> > commonly hang out with each other in phrases which form accepted
blocks 
> > of
> > meaning. In this context I'm looking especially at collocations with 
> > adjectives
> > and adverbs).
>
> > This is what I've got so far:
>
> > adverb + adjective
> > abundantly clear
>
> > adjective + noun
> > colossal explosion
> > substantial reduction
> > pleasant environment
> > admirable gesture
> > sound investment
> > fantastic op****tunity
> > high quality
> > unmitigated disaster
> > heavy rain
> > deep sleep
> > strong denial
>
> > noun + adjective
> > proof positive
>
> > verb + adverb
> > rain heavily
> > sleep deeply
> > deny strongly
>
> > adverb + verb
> > richly deserve
>
> > Then a moment ago I posted a reply with the words, 'I stand
corrected', 
> > which
> > is verb+adjective and reminiscent of the recent and regular 'why is it

> > "he
> > looks sad" and not "he looks sadly"?' thread, but please lets not go 
> > there. [1]
>
> > Anyway, I'd be very grateful if I could sample auers', aeurs' and 
> > melees'
> > suggestions for further inclusion in the four lists. ?The things I've 
> > got so
> > far are OK, but none of them sound as though they might have come from
a 
> > piece
> > of academic writing, and that's the sort of example I'm after.
>
> Reaching for the topmost paper on my "To read" pile I find:
>
> highly relevant
> wide diversity
> active market
> seminal study
> closely monitored
> empirical inquiry
> national culture
> statistical link
> risk management (noun+noun?)
>
>
>
> > If anyone is interested, there's a rock paper about this stuff here:
> >http://tinyurl.com/6zgfrz
>
> Word 2007 won't let me read this. "Rock paper" somehow implies the
> existence of scissors...

(What, apart from that, does it mean?)

Just a few quickies:

properly so called

set phrase (!)
stock epithet
prime object, primary object, principal object

hard and fast

--
Mike.
Late husband?