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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

COLLOCATIONS


COLLOCATIONS 



 The last definition is from Oxford Collocations Dictionary: “Collocation is the way words combine in a language to produce natural-sounding speech and writing.” Strong coffee and fast food can be given as examples for collocation in English. When we speak or write it will be very difficult to combine the collocations in the target language especially if you are a beginner. Although a native speaker do not have any problem in understanding the collocations, non-native speakers may face many comprehension problems.


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7 comments:

  1. I have always wondered about what colors mean. I learnt that some have negative meanings. Thanks for great sharings..

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    1. I hope after learning their connotative meanings you can use them more appropriately. Thanks...

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  2. I have always wondered about what colors mean. I learnt that some have negative meanings. Thanks for great sharings..

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  3. Learning colors different meaning is very interesting. Thank you very much

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  4. Colors may connate both positive and negative feelings at the same time.

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  5. you have prepared a wonderful page about connotations. I have learnt many new things about connotation. Thank you Burcu

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  6. I learned many vocabularies from your blog. Thank you a perfect about conniptions. In addition I liked especially how to teach collocations part.

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