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- noun Plural form of
collocation .
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Examples
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It is not easy to distinguish between clichés and what linguists call collocations -- that is, collections of words that, while not unanalyzable idioms per se
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This would seem to suggest that, if you present going to without go, you are misrepresenting – or at best under-representing – its typical collocations.
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The British National Corpus has 251 instances of “no end”, of which 42 are adverbs in the relevant sense; common collocations include “cheer up”, “improve”, and “worry”.
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Some sort of language point that has arisen is called for – introducing them to the notion of collocations is often a good one – using examples from things they have said.
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Much more useful than a handful of high-frequency words, he argued, was a rich diet of collocations and other species of formulaic language.
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This would seem to suggest that, if you present going to without go, you are misrepresenting – or at best under-representing – its typical collocations.
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A quick check of their respective collocations shows that (in US English) syllabus very often collocates with course, whereas curriculum hardly ever does.
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I have always taught them as collocations, which has always gotten my goat in secret because I HATE having to say ‘oh well. we just have to memorize them.’
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Much more useful than a handful of high-frequency words, he argued, was a rich diet of collocations and other species of formulaic language.
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I now include a unit in my online MA language analysis course which introduces teachers to some of these sites, and sets easy-peasy tasks, such as identifying the statistically significant collocations in a text.
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