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Impl Impo

implicates the importance of

This link was created in response to a student writing

X implicates the importance of grammar teaching

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

Another way of showing the usage of importance is by means of a ‘word sketch’, which shows words most associated with particular grammatical relations. A link that we have created with relation to this is https://ske.li/importance_wsk2, showing the verbs and adjectives most associated with importance in this sort of structure:

 

Of course, importance is not the only ‘importance’ noun occurring with these verbs (stress, highlight, emphasise/ze) – if you wanted to show some other nouns (importance still predominates), you could use this link https://ske.li/stress_role, which looks a bit like this:

important problem

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

X has become an important problem

The reusable link is https://ske.li/ij8 and it looks like this:

 

nb it may be worth drawing students’ attention to the verbs occurring before ‘a [big] problem’

It is also quite interesting to look at other ‘problem’ nouns that are used in this sort of pattern. The reusable link is https://ske.li/big_issue and it looks like this: