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Old 28-Jul-2006, 14:52
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I can't find out which adjective collocate with weather, criticism, flavour- mild? Can we descirbe flavour as fierce? What about a verb collating with ambition, assets, dream- to hold, have? Big, heartfelt, grateful, sincere and warm:)thanks!
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Old 28-Jul-2006, 16:33
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i use a dictionary calls (collocations dictionary). it's one of oxford products.
use it.
it can be usefull
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I did use it yet nothing seems right (either I am blind or there are no collocations common for these words in the dictionary). :)
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Oh maybe I was not clear enough. I need one adjective collocating with all of the following : weather, cricitism, flavour. Mild and firce are my favourites but I am not sure whether we may describe criticism as mild and flavour as fierce :). I m also looking for a verb collocating with: an ambition, assets, a dream- can it be simply hold or have? Thanks again:)
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Have you ever used a CONCORDANCER, Magdalena? Open a window for each word, and see what matches--


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This is a strange thing! And funny. Thanks!
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You can use "mild" to describe both criticism and weather; you may also use "fierce" to describe the weather and criticism (although you ought to bear in mind that the clearly apparent human connotations of the word will lend objective and inanimate subjects a kind of anthropomorphism that will take the sentence into the metaphoric). For instance, you can describe the weather as "fierce" because of its erratic and intimidating expressions, which is suggestive of a temperament. The same can be said of "criticism", which suggests that the one critizing was particularly scathing and was not lenient.

You can also have a "mild" flavour as that is about the degree of the flavour. However, I would advise you don't use the phrase "fierce flavour". While we would all understand you perfectly well (and I'm sure it has been printed many times) if you did, it would sound colloquial. Informally it is acceptable, although you should note the new trend in England where people (esp. Londoners) are beginning to use the term "fierce" in the affirmative to mean "great", rather than unpleasant.
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Thanks! That was fierce!
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Like what happened to the word "wicked". Itīs originally bad but with the time it changed to good!
Thereīs a site I love about words called the word detective by Evan Morris! Check it out, heīs very witty!

www.word-detective.com/
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Like what happened to the word "wicked". Itīs originally bad but with the time it changed to good!
Thereīs a site I love about words called the word detective by Evan Morris! Check it out, heīs very witty!

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