describe teaching is

This link was created in response to a student writing:

a large number of papers describe grammar teaching is an irreplaceable part in English language learning

The link is https://ske.li/describe_x_as and looks a bit like this:

 

Of course, describe isn’t the only verb that can be used here. Here is a concordance showing some other options https://ske.li/definedescribeas. It looks like this:

A different range of verbs revolving around see/view/regard also has this pattern with a similar meaning, as shown here https://ske.li/see_x_as. This concordance looks like this:

 

differ widely from

This link was created in response to a student writing:

The aim, design, size and content of the X differ widely from Y

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

NB there is an example of differ widely in this concordance but it is not followed by from.

There is another link which shows the main adverb collocates following differ. It is https://ske.li/differ_rr and it looks like this: