Undergo vs Suffer an accident
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I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example:
Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at
the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed
through the roof of a building
In the gap you need to choose between underwent and suffered.
Both of these collocate with accident according to ludwig.guru: 1) suffered, 2. underwent
However, the answer key suggests suffered as the only possibility.
Why can't the latter work as well?
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I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example:
Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at
the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed
through the roof of a building
In the gap you need to choose between underwent and suffered.
Both of these collocate with accident according to ludwig.guru: 1) suffered, 2. underwent
However, the answer key suggests suffered as the only possibility.
Why can't the latter work as well?
differences vocabulary semantics collocation
asked 24 mins ago
george
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With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
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I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example:
Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at
the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed
through the roof of a building
In the gap you need to choose between underwent and suffered.
Both of these collocate with accident according to ludwig.guru: 1) suffered, 2. underwent
However, the answer key suggests suffered as the only possibility.
Why can't the latter work as well?
differences vocabulary semantics collocation
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example:
Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at
the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed
through the roof of a building
In the gap you need to choose between underwent and suffered.
Both of these collocate with accident according to ludwig.guru: 1) suffered, 2. underwent
However, the answer key suggests suffered as the only possibility.
Why can't the latter work as well?
differences vocabulary semantics collocation
differences vocabulary semantics collocation
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
asked 24 mins ago
george
354112
354112
With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
– tmgr
11 mins ago
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With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
– tmgr
11 mins ago
With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
– tmgr
11 mins ago
With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
– tmgr
11 mins ago
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With underwent, the first two sentences on Ludwig.guru are the same source and same sentence. From the New Yorker: All she had to do was undergo a terrible accident. It's probably a joke - hard to tell without context - but it's not normal. The rest are clearly different and more remote as collocations. (For one, you might well undergo surgery as a result of an accident.) I'd try a dictionary first, if I were you; it's more likely to give you a precise answer.
– tmgr
11 mins ago