English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'research'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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Summary
You can 'undertake' or 'carry out' research. It might, 'prove', 'suggest' or 'show' something important. These are some verbs that are commonly used with the noun 'research'. You can learn these and more with Phil in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:05.0 | We do research, but what other verbs do we use with research? |
| 0:10.2 | Well, you carry it out or undertake it. |
| 0:13.7 | We can also say you conduct research. |
| 0:16.1 | They mean the same. |
| 0:17.5 | No one has carried out research on this area before. |
| 0:20.3 | We're conducting the first major |
| 0:22.5 | research on this topic. She's undertaking some important research. When talking about it, |
| 0:29.3 | we often want to say what research is based on. Where does the information come from? This |
| 0:34.8 | research is based on data from our experiments. Then it's all about how certain you are. |
| 0:41.4 | Maybe your research proves something, shows something or reveals something. Maybe it just |
| 0:47.4 | suggests something if you're not so sure. My research proves that my theory is correct. It reveals the |
| 0:53.8 | importance of my ideas. Her research proves that my theory is correct. It reveals the importance of my ideas. |
| 0:56.6 | Her research suggests that things are much more complicated than we thought. |
| 1:01.2 | So, you can undertake research, base it on data, and see if it proves or suggests something. |
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