She learned that strong collocates with: coffee, wind, opinion, feeling. Powerful collocates with: computer, engine, nation, drug.
Emma smiled and pulled the blue book from her bag. “I learned that words have friends,” she said. “You have to use them together.” collocations in use elementary
One rainy Saturday, she walked into a small second-hand bookshop. On a dusty shelf, she found a blue book with a promising title: English Collocations in Use (Elementary) . She learned that strong collocates with: coffee, wind,
Emma was a dedicated English student. She knew thousands of individual words: make , do , strong , heavy , tell , say . But when she tried to speak, her sentences sounded strange. feeling. Powerful collocates with: computer
Her teacher noticed immediately. “Emma, your English sounds so much more natural! What changed?”