Finding, recording and learning collocations

Learning collocations

• regularly revise what you want to learn
• practise using what you want to learn in contexts that are meaningful for you personally
• learn collocations in groups to help you fix them in your memory. You might group together collocations relating to the same topic. Or you might group collocations based on the same word, for example:
  
  • I must find a way to help him.
  • Can you find your way back to my house?
  • I learnt the hard way that Jack can’t be trusted.
  • Please tell me if I’m getting in your way.
  • You must give way to traffic from the left.
  • I’ve tried every possible way to get him to change his mind.