Awareness of ‘towards’
Posted by pakguru on June 21st, 2019 | 0 comments | collocation, IELTS, speaking, terhadap, vocabulary, writing
This approach represents their awareness towards the environment.
I think this another example of the clash of the collocation civilisations!
Indonesians are probably thinking ‘kesadaran terhadap..’, and translating terhadap as towards. I’m afraid that’s not English collocation. Here’s what you need:
- This approach represents their awareness of the environment.
Just in case you don’t believe me, here are the first 20 results from Netspeak.org:
- their awareness of a number
- their awareness of and share
- their awareness of issues with
- their awareness and understanding of
- their awareness of the importance
- their awareness of their own
- their awareness of the need
- their awareness and knowledge of
- their awareness of, and
- their awareness of the world
- their awareness and appreciation of
- their awareness of the issues
- their awareness of the potential
- their awareness of the needs
- their awareness and use of
- their awareness of how to
- their awareness of security issues
- their awareness of the impact
- their awareness of the benefits
- their awareness of the problem
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