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Collocations Explained

Collocations are lexical units or chunks i.e. a pair or group of words, which are used within a given language with greater regularity than would be expected from random pairing or grouping. Collocations are regular lexical chunks which appear in normal native language use with a high degree of frequency and regularity. Collocations illustrate the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs, or which verbs and nouns are used together. "good luck" "bad luck" "good morning" but not "bad morning". The word collocation simply mean to appear or be located together i.e. to co-locate where the morpheme co means together, coupled with the word locate or location. Collocation can also be considered to be a "false friend" due to the fact that in many European languages the word collocation means the same as cohabit in English i.e. to live together. Which although similar in meaning is not the same. The best way to explain collocation is to give some examples. These examples can be found by looking at Corpus Concordance. e.g.

The Collins Word banks Online English corpus

The British National Corpus

American National Corpus



Collocations with good Collocations with bad Collocations with fresh Collocations with rotten
good morning
good day
good night
good time
goodbye
good to see you
good Friday
have a good time
good grief
good golly
good heavens
good God
good gracious
good show
a good friend
good for you
no good for you
good quality
good practice
the good life
good boy
good girl
good man
good try
good to go
good on you
good for nothing
the great and the good
as good as it gets		 bad luck
bad idea
from bad to worse
a bad man

 fresh fruit
fresh meat
fresh air
fresh breath
fresh water
fresh idea
fresh baked bread
fresh as a daisy
fresh out of luck
fresh young thing
minty fresh		 rotten fruit
rotten meat
rotten fish
rotten air
rotten breath
(old) idea
(stale) bread
rotten eggs

Last update: May 5 2010, 12:17 PM EDT by 37086701 (content history | content tools) (help)
Keyword tags: Collocations Corpus Concordance Lexical Chunks Lexical Units Online Corpus The American National Corpus The British National Corpus The Collins Word bank corpus

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