collocation
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- noun
- /ˌkɒləˈkeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
colocación
- English learners often struggle with collocations like 'make a decision' and 'take a risk'.
- collocation analysis
Examples
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As indicated by collocation analysis, the objects of respect include human diversity, wellness, and civil dialogue.
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New-wave titles often contain extremely unusual collocations or metaphors, tend to run long, and tend to contain finite verbs or interesting verbals.
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An excellent collocation enables you to be prominent even in public.
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Collocation analysis provided insights into how the term degree was used in context, and collocates appear in Table 3.
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More justifiable conclusions require examination of each word as used in context, and this is often done through collocation analysis and concordance analysis.
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Jane Austen's belief qualifiers, for example, almost always are found in collocation with relatively nonmetaphorical inferences.
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In language learning, understanding common collocations can significantly improve your fluency.
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Using the right collocations in your writing makes it sound more natural and polished.
How Fixed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collocation comes from the parts com- 'together' and loc- 'place', so you can think of it as 'placing words together'. That's why a collocation is a group of words that commonly go together, like 'make a decision', and learning them helps your English sound natural.