Collocation-I

 

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Dear readers, having gone through the common errors in terms of expressions in daily conversations, now let us learn about an interesting and more important topic in grammar, i.e., Collocation. By mastering collocation and its dynamic usage in daily conversation, we can enrich our language with a selective choice of words.

Collocation means the pairing of particular words that commonly occur together. Let us discuss some of the interesting collocations with examples.   

Sl. No.	Incorrect Version	Correct Version	Examples
1	Call you again	Call you back (When we are unable to answer a phone call, we call people back.	I am busy now, I will call you back.
2	Aged parents	Elderly parents	We are blessed to live with elderly parents.
3	Agree to someone	Agree with someone	I agree with your opinion.
4	People of my age	People in my age	People in my age are working hard to get a government job.
5	Big difficulty	Great difficulty (big is too informal)	My family is facing great difficulty nowadays.
6	Big mistake	Serious mistake	My friend has committed a serious mistake.
7	Big crime	Serious crime	Playing banned online games is a serious crime.
8	Big/great attempt	Serious attempt	Mani has made a serious attempt to qualify for the UPSC exams.
9	Alternate arrangements	Alternative arrangements	There is a power outage today, so we should make alternative arrangements.
10	Greatly skilled	Highly skilled	We have got highly skilled professors in our college.

 

 Practising the collocations mentioned above will help us interact confidently in daily conversations. Let us continue with the lesson in the next post.

 

Author:

Dr. K. Nandhakumar

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (Autonomous)

Coimbatore- 641 020

 

Reference:

Saumya Sharma. (2017). Common Errors in Everyday English