ROOT + VERB
- develop, grow
- put down, take
- I hope those cuttings will take root
PREP
- by its/the ~s
- She pulled the shrub out by its roots
ADJ
- humble
- Despite his wealth, he never forgot his humble roots
- cultural
- severed from our cultural roots by industrialization
- middle-class, peasant, working-class
- French, Scottish, etc.
VERB + ROOT
- get/go back to, return to
- My husband wants to go back to his Irish roots
- trace
- They can trace their roots back to the sixteenth century
- put down
- We haven't been here long enough to put down roots
- cut yourself off from
ADJ
- deep
- very
- common
- The two languages share a common root
- historical
VERB + ROOT
- have
- get at/to, go to
- I've spent months trying to get to the root of the problem
- lie at
PREP
- at (the ~ of)
- It is a moral question at root. His fears of loneliness lay at the very root of his inability to leave
- ~ in
- The unrest has roots in religious differences
PHRASES
- the root of all evil
- They consider globalization to be the root of all evil
- the root of the matter/problem
- I expect money is at the root of the matter