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What is collocation?

In this video I’ll show you what collocations are

and how we can use them.

Let’s begin.

There are words

that naturally go together in English.

Because of collocation we can’t say:

Quick train

We must say:

Super fast train

Now what is correct here?

Can we say

there was hard traffic on the way home?

No!

But why?

Again because of collocation.

To speak like a native speaker

you should at least know the common collocations.

If you say “hard traffic”

everybody would understand what you meant

but Native English speaker would never use

these words together to convey this meaning.

We can say:

Bad traffic

Heavy traffic

Terrible traffic

So as I said before

some words fit together

and some words don’t.

For example:

Fast food

We don’t say:

quick food

Fast and quick are synonyms.

They have the same meanings

but when they go with other words

some of them are better to use.

I will tell you some of the most common

collocations in English:

Have breakfast

Pay attention

Keep in touch

Make plan

Give an example

Go crazy

Save time

Now

which one is correct:

He missed the bus

Or

He lost the bus

Tell me in the comment section.

See you next time

Bye!