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Irasuti Tan Posted 11 years ago
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the collocations (VERB + ADJECTIVE)

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Please help me to Identify the collocations (VERB + ADJECTIVE) in the following paragraphs.

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Dawn Halfaker woke up in hospital thrashing around, thinking she was still lying in the dust next to her Humvee in Iraq.
"Is my arm OK?" she asked.
"Honey, they already took your arm," her father Stephen told her.
Halfaker, now 33, was back in the US at the Walter Reed military hospital, where staff thought she wasn't going to make it through the ravages of her wound and the subsequent infection.
But she survived her combat wound, was promoted from lieutenant to captain and today, missing her right arm, is an extremely successful businesswoman.
She sums up the views of so many military women at the announcement by Leon Panetta that combat jobs will now finally be officially opened to women.
"Business as usual, then," said Halfaker.
Before the night when she was wounded out on patrol with her military police platoon in Baquba, about 35 miles from Baghdad in 2004, she had already been in combat.
Based in an Iraqi police station, she was in a firefight for several hours when the base came under siege by insurgents.
"We took positions on the roof fighting off a full-fledged attack and firing back at them," she said. She personally scored hits on the enemy, and her own side took casualties.
Her platoon had 33 males and four females. But she recalls gender making no difference, and the only relevant question when approaching any job was: "Are you competent?"
Then one night on patrol they were ambushed. Halfaker was in the back of the Humvee when the officer in front screamed. A rocket-propelled grenade had torn through the front of the vehicle and ripped off his arm. The limb fell in the lap of the driver.
The grenade continued its path, slicing through Halfaker's arm and temporarily blinding and deafening her.
"Some people don't recall feeling any pain. This felt like someone was repeatedly chopping at my arm with an axe," she said. She was hyper-alert, asking after her colleagues before being bundled into a helicopter and evacuated, a dramatic end to her five-month tour.
It was also the end to her military service and a prodigious basketball talent. Halfaker was devastated.
But seven years later she now runs Halfaker Associates, her own company in Arlington, Virginia, with a staff of 150 – a third of whom are veterans. It fulfils military contracts for the federal government such as providing civilian intelligence analysts.
  

Top answer

Verbs are modified by adverbs, not adjectives. Are you sure you're asking the right question?

  • Verbs are modified by adverbs, not adjectives.
  • Are you sure you're asking the right question?
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Verbs are modified by adverbs, not adjectives. Are you sure you're asking the right question?
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deadratVerbs are modified by
I don't think it's a question of modification. It think it's like a word game where you try to find "looks good", "acts weird", and "seems normal", maybe even those of the type "helps poor" (as in "She helps poor people") — more or less the way a string search works, or Google.

CJ
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Irasuti TanPlease help me to Identify the collocations (VERB + ADJECTIVE) in the following paragraphs.
There are so few that it's difficult to find them. "had 33" might be one. "providing civilian" might be one.

CJ

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