If you are thinking that collocations are confusing concept, something hard or difficult to remember then, we bring an easy way to remember. As you break this word Collocation into two sub words Co and Location – the “Co” means together and “location” means place. So it becomes easy to remember that something or words that are placed together or they are located together.
Collocations are really helpful in avoiding the overuse of words that might make the sentences ambiguous. You can check some of the words like – “very”, “nice”, “beautiful”. When you pair other words with them they are fitting into the context in a better way and they also have a more precise meaning.
List of 4 Types of Collocations with Example Words
Now we would move ahead to know what are some different types of collocations. As we know that collocations are made up of different kinds of nouns, verbs, and adjectives and the types would be based on them.
1. Adverb Along With Adjective: Some words that we would be sharing here belong to this category – Fully Aware, Highly Controversial, Highly Confidential, Happily married, Highly effective, Highly profitable, etc.
2. Adverbs + Adverbs: This is the second set that would have both the words as adverbs – Pretty well, Quite Functional, Quite Often, Right away.
3. Verb along with adverb: You can see the examples have the first word as an adverb and the next one as a verb – Deeply rooted, Never knew, Quite agree, badly damage.
4 Adjective with Noun: These words are made from adjectives and verbs being grouped together. Internal organs, Irresistible food, Joint account, Just cause, Key issues, Key role.
Now once we have known about the different types of collocation, It becomes easier for us to differentiate and use them correctly. Have a look at how collocations are used in sentences.
How to Use of Collocations as Verb and Noun
It is used as – To collocate: (verb) it means that some words appear more than once as compared to other word. And this frequency id not by chance. You can easily understand with an example that the word – “white” collocated with the word “coffee”.
The word collocation can also be used as a noun: this shows the combination of two or more words that are occurring frequently. You can see that “white coffee” is a collocation. It is used as a noun rather than a verb.
When you are checking it in the non-linguistic since then it will be easy to understand. Let’s see how it can be used.
Collocate – (in the form of a verb): Something that is used side by side.
Collocate (in the noun form): It is considered to be an action that places things side by side or in a particular position.
Collocate/ Co-locate: (again in the verb form): You would be sharing the location of the facility with someone or something.
While using collocations you will have to yourself to perfect your English and sound just like the native people.