Let’s learn English Collocations!

おはようございます、Tatsuyaです。

今日は昨日のコロケーションの記事を英語で書いていきたいと思います。

 

難しいよ！って人は昨日の記事を読んでもらって、もっと英語について深く知りたい！という人は今日の記事にもチャレンジしてみてください。

昨日の記事は

🔽Let’s learn English Collocations! 英語のコロケーションって何!?

それでは、やっていきましょう！

 

1．What is a collocation?

Collocation means a natural combination of words; it refers to the way English are closely associated with each other.

 

For example, do and homework go together,

as do make and mistakes;

tall goes with man/woman

and high with mountain.

 

A collocation is a pair or group of words that are often used together.

These combinations sound natural to native speakers.

 

However,students learning English have to make a special effort to learn them because they are often difficult to guess.

 

Some combinations just sound “wrong” to native speakers of English.

→fast cars / quick cars

→fast food / quick food

 

2. Learning collocation is learning vocabulary

Learning collocation is an important part of learning vocabulary.

 

Some collocations are fixed, or very strong.

 

For example, take a photo where no word other than take collocates with photo to five the same meaning.

Anything else,

Did you watch TV last night?

You must make an effort and study for your exams.

 

Sometimes, a pair of words may not be absolutely wrong.

 

People will understand what is meant.

 

However, it may not be the natural, normal collocation.

 

3. Why learn collocation?

When you learn collocations, you can

1)give you the most natural way to say something

2)give you alternative ways of saying something

3)improve your style in writing