Modifying Another Word

• highly: It is, indeed, highly instructive to mark the progress of these two great literary institutes.

• particularly: The second of these cases is particularly instructive in the present context.

• equally: It's equally instructive, however, to consider the event in the context of its host's career.

• extremely: The negative contrast with the Irish case is extremely instructive here.

• very: The story of the conjured city is very instructive here.

• quite: Just to see this tiny piece of beach was quite instructive.

Infinitive complement

• compare: It is instructive to compare magnetic with electric fields.

• examine: Therefore, it is instructive to examine briefly the form of the rhetoric of accepted statements of human rights.

• note: It is instructive to note the appearance of craters throughout the Lunar month.

• consider: It will be instructive to consider some examples of this.

• look: It's instructive to look at how they have been used.

• see: It is instructive to see how the British Foreign Office website presents the Northern Ireland problem to the outside world.

Modifies a noun

• comparison: There is an instructive comparison to be made with what has been noticed by Labor.

• lesson: It is an instructive lesson in how software fixes for hardware problems may be counterproductive.

• example: Many instructive case examples were cited by the House of Lords.

• reading: They received over 700 responses which they published in a report entitled 'Your Shout ' which is instructive reading.

• story: Elliot has a good and instructive story about a pilot he had met on an aircraft carrier.

• text: Henry Phillips's instructive texts form the basis of the restoration planting scheme.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Visitor feedback from the Wellcome Wing has already proved instructive.

Preposition: in

• respect: The history of oil palm propagation by tissue culture is instructive in this respect.