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collocations with Motivation?

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car...@hotmail.com

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Apr 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/22/99
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Hi all,

1.What adjectives can I use to collocate with MOTIVATION?

2. from my very limited vocabulary, only a few are suggested here, please spot
out any mistakes. ( high / strong / high degree of motivation ??)

I need to enrich my vocabulary, please kindly provide more adjectives to
describe different degrees of motivation. Thank you so much for your help.

regards,
carol


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N.Mitchum

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Apr 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/22/99
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car...@hotmail.com wrote:
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> 1.What adjectives can I use to collocate with MOTIVATION?
>.....

"Collocate" is a bit stuffy. You could instead say just "use with
'motivation.'"

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> 2. from my very limited vocabulary, only a few are suggested here, please spot
> out any mistakes. ( high / strong / high degree of motivation ??)

>.....

"Strong motivation" sounds good. "High degree of" is wordy; it
enfeebles "motivation."

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> I need to enrich my vocabulary, please kindly provide more adjectives to
> describe different degrees of motivation. Thank you so much for your help.

>.....

Poor. Good. Weak. Insufficient. Lots of others. But you'd do
just as well to to expand the possibilities by also using the
adjective "motivated": strongly motivated, unmotivated, highly
motivated, and so forth.


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