English for the Eager Learners
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To Learn <strong>English</strong> (2)<br />
Lesson 2<br />
An <strong>English</strong> word must be learned toge<strong>the</strong>r with o<strong>the</strong>r words at <strong>the</strong> same time. This<br />
word-matching, or word-combining is called collocation. Such a close connection among<br />
words spreads through <strong>the</strong> whole language. It includes proverbs, idioms, phrasal verbs,<br />
and many fixed expressions.<br />
Examples: No news is good news. (Proverb)<br />
Dancing is not my cup of tea. (Idiom)<br />
We ran out of money after our holidays. (Phrasal verb)<br />
The story is about love at first sight. (Fixed expression)<br />
There are many types of matching as <strong>the</strong> following sentence shows.<br />
:Adjective :Adverb<br />
A very reasonably large company has recently bought 50,000 shares wholly through a leading stockbroker.<br />
A very reasonably large company have recently bought 50,000 shares wholly through a leading stockbroker.<br />
very<br />
quite<br />
utterly<br />
fairly<br />
Adjective<br />
50,000<br />
large<br />
20%<br />
reasonably<br />
(adverb)<br />
shares<br />
(noun)<br />
subject tran. v. object prep. object<br />
Adverb Adverb<br />
Adverb<br />
reasonably<br />
very<br />
ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />
quite<br />
Adverb<br />
wholly<br />
partly<br />
completely<br />
large<br />
(adjective)<br />
through<br />
(prep.)<br />
recently<br />
cheaply<br />
quickly<br />
Adjective<br />
a<br />
leading<br />
large<br />
Download more chapters at: http://english<strong>for</strong><strong>the</strong>eagerlearners.blogspot.hk/<br />
Tips to learn<br />
collocations:<br />
1. Through all kinds of<br />
reading materials.<br />
2. With dictionaries.<br />
buy<br />
(verb)<br />
stockbroker<br />
(noun)<br />
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