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Grammar

Collocation

Dear Teachers,

Could you please explaine to me what the collocation is
with some examples ?

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'Collocation' is the tendency of some words to meet in word groups. Some words are 'highly collocated', like 'blue skies', 'green grass', and 'wrinkled old men'-- the words in each group occur together frequently. Other words have 'low collocation', like 'green skies', 'red grass', and 'wrinkled young debutantes', which seldom form word groups.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Collocation' is the tendency of some words to meet in word groups.
  • Some words are 'highly collocated', like 'blue skies', 'green grass', and 'wrinkled old men'-- the words in each group occur together frequently.
  • Other words have 'low collocation', like 'green skies', 'red grass', and 'wrinkled young debutantes', which seldom form word groups.
  • Learning collocations is often the most difficult task of non-native learners, as it is often only collocation that makes the difference between natural sounding and unnnatural sounding phrases, though both may be grammatical.
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'Collocation' is the tendency of some words to meet in word groups. Some words are 'highly collocated', like 'blue skies', 'green grass', and 'wrinkled old men'-- the words in each group occur together frequently. Other words have 'low collocation', like 'green skies', 'red grass', and 'wrinkled young debutantes', which seldom form word groups.

Learning collocations is often the most d
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