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:
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:
