recognition

=Word: recognition= Context sentence: His sense of adventure has altered Colin Javens's life **beyond recognition**. Resource: Reader's Digest Definition: the fact of knowing who a person is or what a thing is because of havingseen or had experience with them before. Dictionary: CAMBRIDGE English DICTIONARY Easy to remember: recognize

In the context sentence we have an idiomatic phrase which uses the word 'recognition' - beyond recognition which means that the original appearance can no longer be recognised. Here are some more examples of that phrase. Notice the verbs that go with it - most of them are negative but some show that dramatic change can be positive too.

In practice, many A-level syllabuses __have__ already __changed__ **beyond recognition**.

A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next, either __blasted__ **beyond recognition** or seriously wounded.

He arrived at night to find the strand `covered in bodies' __charred__ **beyond recognition**, but identifiable as wearing British uniforms.

In opera, the Mariinsky has not always been so illustrious, but in recent times, particularly under the directorship of Valery Gergiev, standards __have risen__ **beyond recognition**.

Leapor is among those __mythologized__ almost **beyond recognition.**

In the Eighties, when everything was disposable, the scrap-yard was a car's final resting place --; a crude graveyard where dented hulks __were crushed__ **beyond recognition** and then sent to landfill sites.

Smith wrote that Coleman `__improved__ the health of army horses **beyond recognition**… what we have to thank him for more particularly is the lessons he taught on the prevention of disease'.