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Collocations for original - noun

VERB + original

pass sth off as
He copied paintings of famous artists and passed them off as originals.

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PREPOSITION

in the original
to read Tolstoy in the original

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Collocations for original - adj.

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
highly, startlingly (esp. BrE), truly
She has a highly original mind.
a startlingly original idea
completely
They are tackling the problem in a completely original way.

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Original is used with these nouns:
aim, art, beam, blueprint, building, cast, character, composition, concept, conception, condition, content, context, contract, copy, design, diagnosis, document, draft, drawing, edition, ending, estimate, expectation, feature, finding, fitting, fixture, form, founder, function, homeland, idea, impetus, impulse, incarnation, inhabitant, insight, intention, interior, investment, invoice, language, manuscript, material, meaning, member, motivation, name, negative, novel, occupant, owner, packaging, painting, piece, plan, position, post, posting, production, projection, proposal, purpose, receipt, recipe, recording, report, request, research, ruling, score, script, series, settler, shape, show, signatory, sin, sketch, song, soundtrack, source, specification, spelling, splendour, story, study, style, tale, tape, text, thinker, thinking, thought, title, track, version, wording, work

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