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tested in examinations such as Cambridge FCE, CAE, CPE and IELTS. This book is. Using collocations will improve your style of written and spoken English: • Instead of ‘a big amount’, say ‘a...
Collocations are not just a matter of how adjectives combine with nouns. They can refer to any kind of typical word combination, for example verb + noun (e.g. arouse someone s interest, lead a seminar), adverb + adjective (e.g. fundamentally di erent), adverb + verb (e.g. flatly contradict), noun + noun (e.g. a lick of paint, a team of experts,
COLL004 - Verb - Noun Collocations. COLL003 - Prepositional Phrases. COLL002 - Collocations and Phrases with BRING, GET, DRAW, CATCH, DO. COLL001 - Collocations and Phrases with GET, DO, TAKE, MAKE, GIVE, HAVE.
Let’s begin our study of collocations by learning some common expressions about the family. Your parents and siblings (brothers and sisters) are your immediate family – and your extended family includes all your relatives – uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc. You can use a family tree to diagram the relationships among your family members.
Collocation means a natural combination of words; it refers to the way English words are closely associated with each other. For example, do and homework go together, as do make and mistakes; tall goes with man/woman and high with mountain. Why learn collocations?
Collocations are two or more words that often go together. They can be made up of different types of words. This worksheet looks at common Verb + Noun Collocations. A. Complete the Collocations in each sentence using one of the words below.
Exercises 7 English Collocations in Use Intermediate Read A and B and answer these questions. 1 What is a collocation? 2 Which of these words does fast collocate with: car, food, glance, meal? 3 Which of these are compounds: computer, narrow-minded, teapot, ancient monument, car park? 4 What do we call expressions like pass the buck and
