This entry was created in response to a student writing:
One of these methods, called post-activation potentiation (PAP) results in acute improvements in muscle power and performance in subsequent explosive activities
“Acute” does not seem to be the right adjective here. It may help to provide a concordance of possible adjectives that fit the meaning of the instance above, as in the reusable link https://ske.li/adj_improvements, which looks a bit like this:
Students might also benefit from investigating which adjectives commonly modify “improvement” through the link https://ske.li/adj_improvement_freq, which looks like this:
Of course, it’s not just numbers between in and ways. Here’s a concordance that shows some other options https://ske.li/in_x_ways. It looks like this:
A different way of viewing the variety of forms of this phrase is via a list of the most frequently found realisations, as shown in this link https://ske.li/in_ways_freq, which looks like this:
