Intensifying adjectives - Phrases in English
Completion requirements
Choose one pair of intensifying adjectives from the list below and look up their most frequent and interesting noun collocates in Phrases in English by following the procedure described below. Select three collocations for each member of your pair and study their example sentences.
a. absolute, sheer
b. complete, utter
c. total, comprehensive
d. full, outright
- Go to http://phrasesinenglish.org/index.html
- From the pull-down menu choose ‘Grams’ and ‘n-grams advanced’.
- In the ‘Minimum frequency’ box change the frequency from 20 to 3.
- Scroll down the page and make sure that there is the digit 2 in the ‘grams’ box (you are going to look for 2-grams.)
- In the Word 1 box type your adjective.
- Press the ‘Query’ button
- The collocations are listed in the right hand-side box
- Study the collocations in context by clicking on each collocation.