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Doanxuanquy Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Collocations

Do the following adjectives collocate with these words " penalty/punishment/sentence"?


Adjectives: strict, tough, heavy, stringent, harsh, strong

  

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word=punishment and put the nouns in question into the websites internal browsers to find relevant collocations.

  • word=punishment and put the nouns in question into the websites internal browsers to find relevant collocations.
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Go to:

http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/punishment http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=punishment

and put the nouns in question i

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doanxuanquyDo the following adjectives collocate with these words " penalty/punishment/sentence"?

Yes, with variable felicity. 'Stringent', however, does not collocate well with any of them.

But why not use Ngrams in the future?—

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