Collocations

 

Oxford Collocations Dictionary ESL defines a collocation as the way words combine in a language to produce natural-sounding speech and writing.The use of collocations makes students sentences more natural and native speaker- like.

Collocations are formed as follows:

Parts Of Speech	Examples
adjective + noun	effecient administration/enjoyable passtime/endless patience
quantifier + noun	a dozen of eggs/hundreds of people/a bar of chocolate
verb + noun	have, meet with,cause , prevent , survive an accident
noun + verb	poison kills/war started/the wind blows
noun + noun	passport photo/discourse analysis/blood donation
preposition + noun	By the dinner time/Under guarantee
adverb + verb	listen attentively/play well/agree heartily/alter substantially
noun + preposition	fruits from the farm/teacher of english
verb + verb	want to live/like to drink
verb + adjective	keep fit/stay healthy/sound logical
adverb + adjective	extremely cold/utterly beautiful
adjective + preposition	keen to/fond of/good at

These pages will provide the Second year Bac students with the appropriate collocations they need to write a natural and standard essay.