Register
Often, collocations rather than individual words suggest a particular register. For example, phrases
using pretty meaning fairly sound informal when used with negative adjectives (pretty awful, pretty
dreadful, pretty dull), and are typical of spoken English.
Newspaper English
Some collocations – particularly ones that use short, dramatic words – are found mainly in
newspapers. In most cases they would not normally be used in everyday conversation.
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