'connects closely' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe an action or relationship in which two or more things are closely associated. For example: "The ideas presented in the lecture connects closely with the themes of the book."
His work connects closely with feminist standpoint theory in providing both an explanation of the patterns of belief-forming practices that can result in an ignorance of the social relations of domination on behalf of the privileged, and an explanation of the potential lack of motivation to correct such ignorance (Alcoff 2007).
Despite this elaborate framework, emerging empirical work shows that political ideology connects closely with how judges have decided vote dilution cases; Democratic appointees have proven much more likely than Republican appointees to favor liability under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
But I am also portraying a kind of northern mentality, which connects closely to both those music scenes.
This connects closely with the second strand of the scheme, which is designed to develop the parallel disciplines of historical marine ecology and marine environmental history through the sponsorship of graduate studentships, workshops, summer schools, conferences and the dissemination of research outputs.
The task of finding SNVs and indels connects closely to the problem of whole-genome alignment.
They are connected closely in that Muslims in this county are fairly rare.
We will also be using the sections on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to connect closely with our developing online activity.
One source, connected closely with Christie's, told The Independent on Sunday that the rows were over clients and sales.
The Co (II) ion is connected closely with the α-Fe2O3 surface through phosphate groups by XPS detection.
The relentless singularity of Heatherwick's designs mean that they tend not to connect closely either with their physical surroundings, or the more everyday aspects of inhabitation.
His defeat would be ironic: he has always been unpopular for being too closely connected to Tony Blair; now he risks losing a no-confidence vote for not being connected closely enough.
