Question

My Word Bank
Find any five adjectives from the story. Add a suitable noun to each to make adjective-
noun collocations
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Answer 1

Answer:

To a native speaker ‘powerful coffee’ sounds strange and incorrect. So we need to know which words will work together to make word combinations that sound correct.

This is, of course, what makes collocations difficult for non-native speakers. You have to know which words go together, and the best way to do that is to learn them together.

There are a number of different word combinations that can make up a collocation. For example, there are verb + adverb collocations (agree completely) and adverb + adjective (fully aware). Strong coffee is an example of an adjective + noun collocation, which is what we shall be looking at in this lesson.