We entered a richly decorated room.

Example of english collocation. The dictionary contains over 150000 collocations for nearly 9000 headwords. Break a leg to do well. John was complaining bitterly about the poor attitudes of his staff.

For example âœcongratulations onâ is a collocation but it is not a common saying. Excellent fine good impressive magnificent outstanding perfect superb wonderful a magnificent example of sixteenth-century architecture fascinating interesting intriguing notable remarkable striking graphic vivid dramatic extreme spectacular clear obvious simple straightforward blatant flagrant glaring His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance. A collocation is two or more words that often go together like hard work or make a mistake.

Many collocations do not express complete thoughts or statements on. Here is a list of some of the most common verb and noun collocations. Co - meaning together - location - meaning place.

Verb Collocations Examples in English. Have a drink get something to drink. Interested in aware of different from good at opposed to afraid of addicted to.

Could you please do me a favor and stop smoking. In this lesson you will find a full list of collocations with DO MAKE SAY TELL GET HAVE. Invading that country was an utterly stupid thing to do.

Feel free feel comfortable feel happy or proud nervous sleepy Have. Some typical collocation examples are pay attention fast food make an effort and powerful engine. Collocation refers to a group of two or more words that usually go together.