Jan 13, 2008

Word collocations I learn today

Collocations show how words are strung and used together to express ideas.

VERB PHRASE

verb + noun (e.g. learn Chinese, take responsibility)
verb + adjective +noun (e.g. learn new Chinese, take a big responsibility)
adverb + verb (e.g. happily learn, sadly take )
adverb + verb + noun (e.g. happily learn Chinese, sadly take the big responsiblity)

NOUN PHRASE
adverb + adjective + noun (e.g. extremely good student )
adjective + preposition + noun (e.g. bad at Art)
noun+ noun (e.g. school students )

1 comment:

Terri Leong said...

I like the example phrases you selected.