ACHIEVE

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘achieve’ was the three hundred and sixtieth most significant key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	Freq.	bec.lst %	Freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
360	ACHIEVE	277	0.03	247	0.01	75.8	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody

Left: No groups detected.

Right: Two groups identified. Overwhelming positive prosody.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 141 & %	example
money/cost/prices	24 - 17.02%	achieve a 25% increase in turnover achieve a better realisation of assets achieve greater profits achieve zero defects
positive business outcomes	141 - 100%	achieve a 25% increase in turnover achieve economic stability

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	to achieve a	12
2	to achieve this	10
3	in order to	9
4	to achieve the	8
5	order to achieve	7
6	i could achieve	5
7	able to achieve	4
8	necessary to achieve	4
9	to achieve it	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

COBUILD: Only one sense noted (accomplish) thus 100% of sample.

Other patterns:

i) verb + to + achieve/verb + noun (group) + to + achieve:

66 instances - 46.8% of sample

seeking to achieve, this action helped to achieve, work as an integrated team to achieve

ii) noun (group) + to + achieve:

12 instances - 8.51% of sample

the need to achieve, shared common strategies to achieve

f) Associates

The word ‘achieve’ was key in 2 files. No associates of frequency > =5 were found.