Essential Action Verbs
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One of the most important tips that we could recommend for the NEBOSH Certificate is to learn the typical examination 'Action Verbs' which are as follows:
- Define - provide a generally recognised or accepted definition
- Describe - give a word picture
- Explain - give a clear account of, or reasons for
- Give - provide without explanation (used normally with the instruction to 'give an example [or examples] of ...')
- Identify - select and name
- List - provide a list without explanation
- Outline - give the most important features of (less depth than either 'explain' or 'describe', but more depth than 'list')
- Sketch - provide a simple line drawing using labels to identify specific features
- State - a less demanding form of 'define', or where there is no generally recognised definition