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SS3 English Language

Collocations

Overview

Students should be able to Identify collocations in sentences and passages. Explain the meanings of collocations. Use them in sentences Find them in the dictionary.

What you'll learn
  • A range of words or expressions which are combined and used in idiomatic ways, for example.
  • A) The politicians used his loyalists to achieve his whims and caprices. (whims and caprices collocate)
  • B) He swallowed the idea whole and sinker (whole and sinker collocates).
  • A passage containing collocations.