English collocations: A novel approach to teaching the language's last bastion

Collocations are a class of idiomatic expressions comprised of a sequence of words which, for mostly arbitrary reasons, occur together in a prescribed order. Collocations are not necessarily grammatical and/or cannot be generated through knowledge of rules or formulae. Therefore, they are often not...

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Main Authors: Rafe S. Zaabalawi, Anthony M. Gould
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Ampersand
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039016300509