2. Group of words often used together
because they sound ‘natural’:
fast car / quick look
Understandable? probably. Natural?
no
3. Fixed / Open collocationsFixed / Open collocations
Fixed:
You must make an effort (not do!)
watch TV (not look!)
Take a photo
Open:
stick to / keep to the rules
4. Why learn collocations?Why learn collocations?
They can:
give you the most natural way to say sth:
smoking is strictly / strongly forbidden.
Which one?
give you alternative ways of saying sth
(repertoire):
It was very cold and very dark / It was
bitterly cold and pitch dark.