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.