Question

pick out on pair of collocation from the passage ​

Answer 1

Concept introduction:

A collocation is a group of words or concepts that co-occur more frequently than would be predicted by chance in corpus linguistics. A collocation is a form of composer phraseme in phraseology, which means that its value may be inferred from the words that make it up.

Explanation:

We have to answer the following question.

A question regarding collocation has been given to us.

Here by reading the passage we have found a pair of collocations which are a pot of Balsam and ample sunlight. In this  passage the two collocations are used.

Final answer:

Hence, the final answer of the question is -> a pot of Balsam and ample sunlight.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The collocations in the given passage are as follows -

• open courtyard
• potted plants
• practice on her violin
• pot of balsam plants
• growth was stunted
• ample sunlight

Explanation:

We have learnt that collocations are essentially a group of words that are usually used together, thereby giving us god clarity into the topic. It usually sounds inappropriate when some words are replaced by their synonyms, because we are used to using the phrases together.

This also helps us enhance our language and make it sound more sophisticated.

There are multiple kinds of collocations, including noun collocations, adjective collocations, and business collocations.

In the given passage, we can find the following collocations -

• open courtyard
• potted plants
• practice on her violin
• pot of balsam plants
• growth was stunted
• ample sunlight

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