Converse of object

• find: Find collocations To find collocations of a word, you first make a search for that word and then use the collocation function.

• use: They practice using the collocations by telling a partner whether the sentences are true or false for them.

• select: It really will improve your ability to select the right collocation, I promise!

• give: Students are given incomplete collocations and semi-fixed expressions that appeared in the texts and try to complete them from memory.

• include: Perhaps the standard might usefully make explicit reference to careful choice of vocabulary and to English usage, including conventional collocations.

Adjective modifier

• common: You will need to be able to identify common collocations, that is words that go together.

• typical: How representative or typical such collocations are of actual language in use can now be tested against corpus evidence.

• lexical: This seminar starts from a purely quantitative concept of lexical collocation.

• significant: What constitutes significant collocation, however, can only be answered statistically.

• special: Special collocations: peregrine falcon: see sense 1 above. peregrine praetor Rom.

• such: How representative or typical such collocations are of actual language in use can now be tested against corpus evidence.

Modifies a noun

• command: Selecting the Collocation command from the Query menu opens the Collocation dialog box.

• method: Such estimates have application in the numerical analysis of solving partial differential equations using radial basis function collocation methods.

• scheme: Error indicators are based on a collocation scheme using uniform norms that compare values of field variables at two successive mesh iterations.

• exercise: Come back each weekday for a new phrasal verb, word formation or collocation exercise.

• function: Open the collocation function by clicking on the Collocations icon or by choosing [ Collocation ] from the [ Query ] menu.

Noun used with modifier

• post: I can only comment, due to my recent arrival, on the paper flow system post collocation.

Preposition: of

• word: We can check that the uses and collocations of words we are teaching are the most frequent, up to date and correct.

Preposition: with

• level: Related Think - Vocabulary - Collocation with advanced levels 1 Comment Marianna Pascal, Malaysia Your ideas on collocation were absolutely fascinating.

• verb: In collocations with verbs introducing what is in effect an object or secondary object.