Wednesday, May 16, 2007

"Academic idioms"

Here are the "academic idioms" that we talked about today:

on the other hand
the end of the
at the same time
as a result of
on the basis of
at the end of
the way in which
the fact that the
one of the most
the rest of the
that there is a
in the case of
the nature of the
in the context of
the extent to which
in the form of
in the absence of
it is important to
it is difficult to
is likely to be
a wide range of
a result of the
a large number of
in the same way
the development of the
the size of the
the basis of the
in a number of
are likely to be
in the development of
it is likely that
the position of the

as a whole
a series of
the need for
the concept of
the possibility of
the effects of
in this way
between the two
the result of
the most important
of the two
the study of
the problem of
a range of
be regarded as
each of the
related to the
analysis of the
the lack of
the introduction of
appears to be
there may be
half of the
the degree of
in some cases
the distribution of
involved in the
in the second
understanding of the
a group of
knowledge of the
the range of
can be made
some of these
the difference between

2 comments:

Girl said...

so it is not all the academic idiom,right?

Brett said...

No. As I said, it really depends on how you define idiom. What we have here is the most common sets of 4-word and 3-word groups that occur specifically in academic English. I just cut them off that number because these are about as frequent as the words from the Academic Word List. Also, this doesn't look at idioms that might change their form or have other words in the middle.