What is a collocation?
Exercise 1.1
Read A and B and answer these questions.
- What is a collocation?
Answer
A collocation is a pair or group of words which are often used together in a way which sounds
natural to native speakers of English.
- Which of these words does fast collocate with: car, food, glance, meal?
- Which of these are compounds: computer, narrow-minded, teapot, ancient monument, car park?
- What do we call expressions like pass the buck and be over the moon?
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