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do research
UK/duː rɪˈsɜːtʃ/US/duː rɪˈsɜːrtʃ/DO RE·search
Band 4-5speakingtask1
to study a topic, usually less formal phrasing than 'conduct research'
Examples
“He does research on social media use among teenagers.”
“I need to do some research before I write the report.”
“Students often do research online for their projects.”
Band 8 sentence
“Before drafting the literature review, I did extensive research across several databases.”
Collocations
- do some research
- do background research
Word family
do verbresearch noun
Common mistakes
do a research→do research
make a research→do research
Say it for a higher band
5make a research→6do a research→7+do research
Synonyms
look into
Easily confused
look into
“I'll look into the issue and get back to you.”
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