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be evaluated by statistics

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

The data from the questionnaires will then be evaluated by descriptive statistics to draw conclusions about…

By is not right here. The reusable link https://ske.li/evaluated, which looks like this, shows through concordance lines what normally occurs:

You might want to show where by can be used to make this a bit clearer. Here is a link with evaluated https://ske.li/be_evaluated_by which looks like this:

To show a wider range of verbs, this link https://ske.li/be_analysed_by can be used. It looks like this:

Created by Elena Mazzeri

cause the negligence of

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

Grammar teaching might also cause the negligence of applied English

To show the problem here, it may help to compare the lines shown in this re-usable link https://ske.li/negligence_, which look like this:

… with the lines shown in this link https://ske.li/neglect_of_conc:

it versus this

This link was created in response to a student writing this:

She pronounced the last word of this sentence with a rising tone. It could make listeners wonder if it is a question or it has not finished.

The reusable link is https://ske.li/lrm and it looks like this: