Category: prepositions

A B C D E F I O V

bring impact on

This link was created in response to a student writing:

bring a negative impact on

The link is https://ske.li/neg_impact and looks like this:

 

The link above might give the impression that impacts are only negative (and that on has to follow impact).This link https://ske.li/have_impact indicates that this is not always the case and looks like this:

 

An alternative way that gives an impression of which forms are most frequent realisations of the phrase can be seen via this link https://ske.li/have_impact_fl, which looks like this:

It may also be helpful to show other nouns with similar meanings which have this phraseology. This link – https://ske.li/effect_impact – combines the three nouns listed and looks like this:

by two ways

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

This issue can be addressed by two ways

The re-usable link is https://ske.li/number_ways and it looks something 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: