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标题：English Collocations in Use: Advanced;
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作者：Felicity O’Dell ; Michael McCarthy
期刊名称：TESL-EJ
印刷版ISSN：1072-4303
出版年度：2009
卷号：13
期号：02
出版社：T E S L - E J
摘要：Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs or which verbs and nouns are used together. Collocations are examples of lexical units and should not be confused with idioms. Unlike the majority of idioms, collocations are subject to syntactic modification. For example, we can say effective writing and write effectively. Learning collocations will help a learner speak and write English in a more natural and formal way. A native speaker listener will know what make a crime means but commit a crime is standard usage. Learning collocations increases the range of one’s English vocabulary, so as to avoid or go beyond words like very or nice by choosing a word that fits the context better and has a more precise meaning.