{"id":71838,"date":"2019-08-28T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71838"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:08:39","slug":"access-academic-word-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/access-academic-word-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Access | Academic Word List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other words in the family<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Accessed, accesses, accessibility, accessible, accessing, inaccessible<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access as a noun<\/p>\n<p>1) the right or opportunity to use a facility that will bring you benefits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Millions of people still have no access to electricity or safe drinking water. \u2022 The students demanded that they should be given access to the computer laboratory.<\/li>\n<li>People in remote villages still don\u2019t have access to good health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) right to look at information that may be private or confidential<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to government records is restricted.<\/li>\n<li>They were given access to official records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3) permission to see and talk to an important person<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0He has direct access to the Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4) the legal right to visit your children after you are divorced<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court denied him access to his children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5) the means by which you can get to a place<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to the venue was guarded by armed policemen.<\/li>\n<li>There is easy access to the temple city by road or rail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Collocations<\/h3>\n<p>Access is commonly used with the following verbs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Allow access \/ block access \/ control access \/ deny access \/ gain access \/ give access \/ grant \/ limit access \/ restrict access<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Access as a verb<\/h3>\n<p>1) to get information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many malicious software programs are able to access the personal information stored on your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) to get to and enter a place<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the road was closed we couldn\u2019t access the highway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t confuse the verb access with the noun access. When access is used as a noun, it should be followed by the preposition<strong> to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The students have access to the reference library. (NOT The students have access the reference library.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When access is used as a verb, it should be followed by a direct object. The preposition to is not used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anybody with an internet connection can access our website. (NOT Anybody with an internet connection can access to our website.)<\/li>\n<li>Students are not allowed to access some websites which may contain information not appropriate for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other words in the family Accessed, accesses, accessibility, accessible, accessing, inaccessible Access as a noun 1) the right or opportunity to use a facility that will bring you benefits Millions of people still have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[926,928,929,927],"class_list":["post-71838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-access","tag-access-as-a-noun","tag-access-as-a-verb","tag-access-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71839,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71838\/revisions\/71839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}