English Collocations

A collocation is a group of words that go well together. There is no single rule showing us which words go well together, but we cay just say that the collocations are determined by the virtue of those words sounding "right" together to native English speakers.

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Collocations List

There are many types of collocations:

Noun + noun

Security policy / target audience

Noun + verb

Cats miaow / dogs bark

Verb + noun

Achieve an objective/ support an argument

Verb + adverb

Work effectively / vary considerably

Adverb + adjective

Almost identical / virtually impossible

Adjective + noun