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عرض تقديمي في powerpoint collocation idioms. what is collocation? collocation is a pair of or group of words that are often used together (word partner). these combinations sound natural to native speakers, but students of english have to make a special effort to learn them because they are often difficult to guess. for example the adjective fast collocates with food, but not with a meal. natural english unnatural english  the fast train fast food  the quick train quick food  a quick shower a quick meal  a fast shower a fast meal mitchell (1956) defines collocation as an association of roots or potential lexical meanings rather than actual words. robins (1964) defines collocations as “the habitual association of a word in a language with other particular words in sentences” why should we learn collocations? 1- your language will be more natural and more easily understood. smoking is …

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of, absent from, accountable to (with), answerable for. 4- verb-participle combination (phrase verbs). some verbs need to be followed by specific adverbial particles. these are called “phrasal verbs” whose meaning is different from the meaning of the separate constituents of the verb and the particle in transitive phrase verbs, the particle (adverb) can generally occur before and after the direct object. did you make up this story? did you make this story up? how do you account for this phenomenon’s? how do you account this phenomenon for? lexical collocations lexical collocations contain no subordinate element; they usually consist of two equal lexical components. types of lexical collocations 1-noun-verb combinations snow was falling as our plane took off. the bomb went off when he started the car engine. 2- adjective-noun combinations the doctor ordered him to take regular exercise. the titanic sank on its maiden voyage. verb-noun combination a. verbs denoting …

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or obvious. this is more common in informal spoken english: ex: do i need to do my hair? (do = brush or comb) using make when do you use make? a- make is for producing, constructing, creating or building something new. b- it is also used to indicate the origin of a product or the materials that are used to make something. examples : his wedding ring is made of gold. the house was made of adobe. c- we also use make for producing an action or reaction: onions make your eyes water. you make me happy. d- we use make with food, drink and meals: make a cake. make a cup of tea. adverb-adjective combination these are used to emphasize purpose, or when we intend to add a strong feeling or a special kind of behavior to adjectives. invading that country was an utterly stupid thing to do. we …

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عرض تقديمي في powerpoint collocation idioms. what is collocation? collocation is a pair of or group of words that are often used together (word partner). these combinations sound natural to native speakers, but students of english have to make a special effort to learn them because they are often difficult to guess. for example the adjective fast collocates with food, but not with a meal. natural english unnatural english  the fast train fast food  the quick train quick food  a quick shower a quick meal  a fast shower a fast meal mitchell (1956) defines collocation as an association of roots or potential lexical meanings rather than actual words. robins (1964) defines collocations as “the habitual association …

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