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Prepositions:
What preposition can go in the
spaces?
1.
Interactive activities were organised to raise students' awareness of global warming.
'awareness
of' - 136 instances.
'awareness about' - 4
instances.
'awareness among' - 12
instances.
'awareness amongst' - 3
instances.
2.
A detailed study of / on energy efficiency is due out
this week.
'study
of' - 296 instances
'study for' - 269
instances
'study on' - 269
instances
'study in' - 142
instances
'study by' - 40
instances
'study at' - 14
instances
'study with' - 10
instances
'study into' - 9
instances
'study under' - 5
instances
'study within' - 4
instances
'study after' - 3
instances
'study about' - 3
instances
3.
Banks must comply with
the new rules or face stiff penalties.
'comply
with' - 747 instances
4.
The office has employed an accounting firm to conduct a review of the NGOs.
'conuct
* review of' - 16 instances
5.
...... independent organization whose concern about
/ for
the welfare of the needy is very close to Towngas.
'concern
about' - 43 instances
'concern for' - 15
instances
6.
To enhance the employees' knowledge of
/ in / on health and safety.
'knowledge
of' - 135 instances
'knowledge in' - 15
instances
'knowledge on' - 9
instances
'knowledge about' - 6
instances
7.
The Director explained that the new procedures will be different from /
than those currently used.
'different
from' - 258 instances
'different in' - 26
instances
'different for' - 16
instances
'different to' - 11
instances
'different than' - 4
instances (more common in American English)
'different at' - 3
instances
8.
Companies should set up proper procedures for
/ in dealing with
complaints.
'procedures
for' - 161 instances
'procedures to + inf' -
91 instances
'procedures in' - 88
instances
'procedures on' - 26
instances
9.
You can demand a
poll (48 instances) (v + n)
10.
There is a growing demand for
investment products focusing on China.
'demand
for' - 625 instances (v + p)
'demand from' - 60
instances (v + p)
'demand of' - 59
instances (v + p)
11.
'demand' is most
frequently used as a nominal adjective.
'demand
deposit(s)' - 78 instances (a + n)
'demand draft(s)' - 21
instances (a + n)
'growth' - 20 instances
(a + n)
'fluctuations' - 4
instances (a + n)
'service' - 3 instances
(a + n)
'trends' - 2 instances (a
+ n)
'facilities' - 1
instance (a + n)
12.
Sample answer:
'objective
evidence' - 99 instances (a + n)
'evidence of impairment'
- 65 instances (n + p + n)
'sufficient evidence' -
42 instances (a + n)
'evidence relevant' -
35 instances (n + a)
13.
Sample answer:
'vast
majority' - 23 instances (a + n)
'vast experience(s)' -
9 instances (a + n)
'vast amount(s)' - 8
instances (a + n)
'vast range' - 4
instances (a + n)
'vast expanse' - 3
instances (a + n)
'vast application' - 2
instances (a + n)
14.
Sample answer:
'evidence
of' - 178 instances (n + p)
'evidence that *' - 29
instances (n + d + n)
'evidence to the contrary'
- 10 instances (n + p + n)
'evidence about' - 5
instances (n + p)
15.
'opportunity/opportunities' shows a semantic
preference
for collocates which are positive in nature, and have connotations
which are not pejorative. For example, the concordance line
below is typical of 'opportunity/opportunities':
While the word 'possibilities' could here be
used in place of 'opportunities',
it does not have the same semantic preference as 'opportunity/opportunities', and may equally
well be used with collocates which have a pejorative connotation, as
the following concordance line shows:
16.
'commit' tends to
co-occur with words that are semantically related in that they are to
do with crimes and/or behaviour that is socially disapproved
of, and has a semantic prosody of something bad. 'commit' also has another
meaning in financial language of investing money, and in this may be
said to be neutral.
'commit
* offence' - 4 instances
'commit * breach' - 1
instance
'commit/ted to' tends
to co-occur with words that are semantically related in that they are
to do with behaviour that is socially approved of, and has a
semantic prosody of something good. An example is shown in
the concordance line below:
17.
The term 'surrender'
means an act of admitting defeat, especially when a military victory is
acknowledged by the defeated party. Here it is used
metaphorically to mean giving up money, a policy or value before it has
run its full period of time originally agreed. It
may be used as an adjective (eg 'surrender
value'), a verb (eg 'policy
is surrendered'), or a noun (eg 'maturities
and surrenders').
18.
Concordance line number 1 is used literally, ('shrug
my shoulders'), and lines 2 and 3 are used metaphorically
('shrug off').
19.
For the word 'plough'
concordance line number 1 is used literally, ('ploughed
after a maize crop'), and lines 2 and 3 are used
metaphorically. For the word 'seed',
lines 3 and 7 are used literally, all the other lines are
metaphorical.
20.
Typical words which are used either as subjects or objects are 'cost(s)', 'claims', 'fee(s)', 'losses' etc. The semantic
preference is for words having this sort of meaning, which is
something gloomy or undesirable .
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