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Collocations for concentrate - verb

ADVERB

hard, intensely (esp. AmE), intently (esp. BrE)
She was sitting at her desk concentrating hard.
fully, properly
I was tired and couldn't concentrate properly.
mainly, mostly, predominantly, primarily
particularly
entirely, exclusively, purely, solely

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VERB + concentrate

be unable to, cannot
I tried to work but I found I couldn't concentrate.
be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
tend to
Banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending.
try to

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PREPOSITION

on
He concentrated mainly on the flying and spoke very little.

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Concentrate is used with these nouns as the object:
attention, effort, energy, mind, wealth

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