Question

what is verb collocations?

Answer 1

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/verb-collocations

Answer 2

i have visited this website before, but i still don't understand..

Answer 3

a combination of words in a language, that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance
‘Resounding success’ and ‘crying shame’ are English collocations.

Answer 4

there a lot of collocations

Answer 5

they are just combination of words like phrases or more often words that goes together, for example: pale skin (adjective+noun)

Answer 6

let's look at the exercise in the link above

Answer 7

..... us some advice. What do you think which word would fit in?

Answer 8

Let's make a party on the beach!
i think it's wrong......is it?

Answer 9

here the collocation is "make a party"

Answer 10

as you consider only verb collocations

Answer 11

and note that, collocations are words that are appropriate, you can not say "do a party"

Answer 12

ohh yeah

Answer 13

so "pale skin" is correct, but you can not say "pale hair"

Answer 14

why not

Answer 15

because hair can be white, but skin can not be. Here it is wrong collocation

Answer 16

So this is what a collocation is

Answer 17

some words collocate with each other, but some don't

Answer 18

okay...