I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ Christmas , holiday ( AmE )
▪ anniversary , birthday , graduation ( esp. AmE ), house-warming , wedding
▪ going-away ( esp. AmE ), leaving ( esp. BrE )
▪ unwanted ( esp. BrE )
▪
Customers may return unwanted ~s in exchange for vouchers.
VERB + PRESENT
▪ buy
▪ get , receive
▪ bring sb , give sb , send sb
▪ exchange
▪
At Christmas, family and friends exchange ~s.
▪ hand out
▪
Santa Claus handed out ~s to the children.
▪ wrap
▪ open , unwrap
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
a ~ for my daughter
▪ ~ from , ~ to
▪
It's a ~ to us all from Granny.
PHRASES
▪ make sb a ~ of sth
▪
My nephew loves this bike so I'm going to make him a ~ of it.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ clearly , well
▪
The arguments were well researched and clearly ~ed.
▪ attractively , neatly
▪ briefly
▪
The papers are only briefly ~ed here.
▪ graphically
▪
The results are ~ed graphically in Figure 2.
▪ orally , visually
▪
The results can be ~ed visually in the form of a graph.
▪ formally
▪
The launch is to be formally ~ed to trade partners in early summer.
VERB + PRESENT
▪ aim to , attempt to , seek to , strive to , try to
▪
We have tried to ~ both sides of the debate.
▪ be designed to
▪
Hotel brochures are designed to ~ the most attractive aspects of the hotel.
▪ fail to
▪
This book fails to ~ her story in a coherent manner.
PREPOSITION
▪ as
▪
He likes to ~ himself as a radical politician.
▪ for
▪
These two techniques are ~ed for illustration only.
▪ to
▪
He ~ed the information to his colleagues.
III.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be
▪ remain
ADVERB
▪ ever
▪
the ever ~ risk of pollution
▪ physically
▪
Simply to be physically ~ was all that was required.
▪ naturally
▪
Bacteria are naturally ~ in the environment.
PHRASES
▪ past and ~
▪
a list of all club members, past and ~
Present is used with these nouns: ↑ century , ↑ circumstance , ↑ climate , ↑ context , ↑ crisis , ↑ decade , ↑ epoch , ↑ era , ↑ form , ↑ generation , ↑ impasse , ↑ incarnation , ↑ inhabitant , ↑ occupant , ↑ owner , ↑ parliament , ↑ phase , ↑ position , ↑ predicament , ↑ preoccupation , ↑ prime minister , ↑ regime , ↑ research , ↑ situation , ↑ state , ↑ study , ↑ tense , ↑ whereabouts , ↑ work