[Vocabulary] stay traditional or remain traditional.

[Son Ho]

Hi, everyone. Please help me to distinguish between these pairs of words (stay or remain, increase or raise) which are very confusing. Which one is correct?

1. stay traditional or remain traditional.
2. increase expectations or raise expectations.

 

[Son Ho]

Here are some examples:

1. In fact, in cultures which stay/ remain strongly traditional, the decision to have a baby may be affected by society.
2. In most modern societies, with raising/ increasing expectations from both men and women, there is an obvious need for major decisions, such as starting a family.

 

[jutfrank]

I have the feeling that those are not your own sentences, but that you found them somewhere online.

Sentence 1 used remain and sentence 2 used increasing. Am I right?

Remember to ask only one question per thread.

 

[Son Ho]

Yes, they are not mine. According to the workbook, I don't really know why remain is used in sentence 1. Maybe somethings in the past continues to be at present, then we use remain. How about increasing instead of raising?

 

[jutfrank]

You may not ask two unrelated questions in the same thread. Start a new thread to ask your second question.

This is very important, Son, so read this carefully: If you want to learn how a word is used, you must understand the context that surrounds it. This context includes the sentence that the word appears in, and also the whole text that the sentence appears in.

Now, please answer the questions below:

1) Where did you find sentence 1?
2) Was it part of a reading passage?
3) Do you understand what sentence 1 means?
4) Do you understand how it fits into the whole reading passage?