TRI DUC ENGLISH ✦ ACADEMIC EDGE ⸻ Unit 4 Edition Mastering Key Academic Adjectives Prepositions · Opposites · Typical noun combinations — Essential vocabulary for academic writing 🔗 A. Adjectives and prepositions For any adjective, it is useful to know whether it is typically followed by a specific preposition. Here are common adjectives followed by to or of . Adjective + Preposition Meaning relative to true to a particular degree when it is being compared with other things relevant to connected with what is happening or being discussed characteristic of (rather formal) typical of specific to only found in common to belonging to or shared by two or more people or things appropriate to suitable or right for a particular situation or occasion ⚠️ Warning: Preposition usage Hãy nhớ nói typical of , không phải typical for . Học các tính từ với các tiểu từ vốn thường theo sau chúng. ⚖️ B. Adjectives and their opposites Knowing antonyms (adjectives with opposite meanings) helps build your academic vocabulary. Adjective Opposite Definitions abstract concrete existing as an idea, not as a material object vs existing in a form that can be seen or felt simple complex having or made of only one or a few parts vs complicated quantitative qualitative based on numbers and statistics vs research using non-number-based methods such as interviews accurate inaccurate exact and correct vs not exact significant insignificant important or noticeable...