Question

Look at the following phrases and see how the two words go together. They are collocative words. 1. sunny weather 2. smiling face 3. hard-working scientist 4. ripe cherry 1. Now fill in the blanks with the most appropriate describing words given in the bracket below. For a few, you may have more than one combination. ………………………………..community ………………………………..soil ………………………………..blackberry ………………………………..cactus ………………………………..attempt ………………………………..value (desert, commercial, successful, scientific, thorn less, rich, white)

Answer 1

Answer:

Look at the following phrases and see how the two words go together. They are collocative words. 1. sunny weather 2. smiling face 3. hard-working scientist 4. ripe cherry 1. Now fill in the blanks with the most appropriate describing words given in the bracket below. For a few, you may have more than one combination. ………………………………..community ………………………………..soil ………………………………..blackberry ………………………………..cactus ………………………………..attempt ………………………………..value (desert, commercial, successful, scientific, thorn less, rich, white)

Answer 2

In order:

scientific, rich, thorn-less, desert, successful, commercial.

• Collocation is the casual pairing of words that are conceptually related.
• A collocation is a combination of two or more commonly occurring words.
• Collocations can take many different forms and are formed by combining verbs, nouns, adjectives, and so on.
• The pair can be an adjective plus an adverb, an adjective plus a noun, a noun plus a verb, a verb plus a noun, or a verb plus a prepositional phrase.
• In our, we must find the best match for the given words so that they become collocative words.
• We find the collocative words after finding the correct match, and they also provide the correct meaning.

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