This entry was created in response to a student writing:
the consequences this phenomenon is causing
There are several ways of raising awareness of the issue here. One way might be to use this link https://ske.li/cause_random_conc and encourage more advanced/experienced students to spot typical things that are caused:
It may seem more helpful at an earlier stage or with less advanced students to make the collocates of cause more obvious, in which case the reusable link that can be used is https://ske.li/cause_probs. It looks like this:
Another, even more obvious way of showing the association between cause and unpleasant consequences is to show the top noun collocates via a Word Sketch. The link is https://ske.li/cause_wsk and it looks like this:
We are grateful to Ana Frankenburg-Garcia (see also Collocaid site) for pointing this out (about Word Sketches and cause).