Dear Philly,
Thank you very much for your help. I did find most of the examples are 'do research'. I think our problem is if there is examples like 'make research' in a dictionary which is the major means to learn English we would think it is correct. I should say according to your search result 'do research' is abosolutely correct. The exercises we are doing are possibly a passage taken from somewhere and the textbook compilers revised it as a cloze. So everything must be from the original passage.
Jiang
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Originally Posted by Philly  Hi Jiang
Using "make research" simply does not sound natural to me at all. Perhaps it is used in some variety of English other than British or American English. I simply have never heard it.
I've now done some searches of the BNC (British National Corpus). This is a good tool for checking usage.
Here is a BNC search for "make research into": SARA Search Results
There are no results at all.
Doing a BNC search for "made research into" gets one single result. However, the word 'make' is not used to mean 'conduct'. Instead it means 'change (into)'. SARA Search Results
BNC searches for "research made into" and "research that was made" also yield no usage results at all.
A BNC search for " do research into", " done research into" and " do research on" yields these results: SARA Search Results SARA Search Results SARA Search Results
Searching the BNC for "do research" gets lots of results: SARA Search Results
Summary:
If you want to talk about "conducting research" the standard collocation is "do research". You can also use word 'research' as a verb. |