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Academic Vocabulary

Verbs Frequently Used in Past in Academic Writing

be begin do make take
become come have say work

Source: Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies 2008–)

ACTIVITY 8 Vocabulary in Academic Writing

Use the academic vocabulary in the simple past or past progressive to complete the sentences. Include
not where given. For some sentences, more than one answer is possible.

Subject Area Example from Academic Writing

Education 1. Many of the new teachers (not) a degree
in the subjects they were teaching.
Political 2. In the early 1930s, the number of workers who joined labor unions
Science to rise.

Environmental 3. The volunteers realized that by recycling, reusing, and reducing, they
Science a difference.
Psychology 4. It the patient several years to overcome
the effects of work-related stress.

History 5. Between 1933 and 1936, windstorms in part of the Great Plains blew much
of the soil away, and the farmland
useless for growing crops.

Health 6. Before becoming the first female African-American general in the U.S. Army
in 1979, Hazel Johnson-Brown as chief
of the Army Nurse Corps.

Economics 7. The financial advisors (not)
truthful about the risks involved in investing in growth stocks.
Business 8. Small, local businesses well until the big
chain stores started offering the same products for lower prices.

Computer 9. The field of computer science from the
Science need to calculate large amounts of data.

English 10. One reviewer that while the author’s latest
Literature novel was enjoyable to read, it was not great literature.

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