We change gears now. From the passive voice to hypernyms and hyponyms, which essentially are fancy words for two kinds of lexical items: "general" and "specific". Does that ring any bells?
In the presentation below I spend 14 minutes going on about the several reasons why we, advanced learners, need to incorporate accurate vocabulary. Case in point: the very phrasal verb "to go on about" is quite unspecific insofar as it doesn't tell you how I go on about. More precise verbs would be "to harp on about" and "bang on about", which have obvious negative connotations. Anyway, the video is a different way of presenting the same old thing: you should be ready to be accurate. I hope I've managed to make my point abundantly clear.
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