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Christanford Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

progress/progression;see/watch

How are 'progress(n)' and 'progression' different?
They according to Oxford mean pretty much the same thing : the process of developing.
I'm not sure about the verb form of progress either. I don't see it used very often.
Also, do 'see' and 'watch' collocate with both 'movie' and 'film'?
Is any of those collocations preferred by a particular group of people?

Thanks very much.
  

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Progress is more often used as the concept, where progression is more often used to refer to a concrete instance-- that's how I preceive the fine difference. The verb progress (stress on the second syllable) seems reasonably common to me, though I have never counted its instances. com/progress%26r%3D67&usg=AFQjCNFWdsOUZN_iqi0qQrAkNTJ6wldyrg ".

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  • Progress is more often used as the concept, where progression is more often used to refer to a concrete instance-- that's how I preceive the fine difference.
  • The verb progress (stress on the second syllable) seems reasonably common to me, though I have never counted its instances.
  • com/progress%26r%3D67&usg=AFQjCNFWdsOUZN_iqi0qQrAkNTJ6wldyrg ".
  • See a movie; watch a film; see a film; watch a movie -- all seem fine and common to me.
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Progress is more often used as the concept, where progression is more often used to refer to a concrete instance-- that's how I preceive the fine difference.

The verb progress (stress on the second syllable) seems reasonably common to me, though I have never counted its instances. Ms Google gives us 4,410,000 pages for "to
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