adjective · academic
relevant
/ˈrɛləvənt/RE·le·vant
Band 7+task2speaking
connected with and important to the matter being discussed
Examples
“Make sure every example you use is relevant to the question.”
“We only included data that was relevant to our hypothesis.”
“That comment is not relevant to the topic of this essay.”
Band 8 sentence
“When you write Task 2, concentrate on including only evidence that is directly relevant to your thesis.”
Collocations
- relevant to
- highly relevant
Word family
relevance nounrelevantly adverb
Common mistakes
relevant with→relevant to
This is not relevant for the topic→This is not relevant to the topic
Say it for a higher band
5related→6connected→7+relevant
Synonyms
pertinent
Easily confused
pertinent
“The lawyer raised a pertinent question about the contract.”
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