Collocation-IV

 

                                           Collocation-IV

Dear readers, in the previous post we discussed Collocations. 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	Household duty	Household responsibility	Cooking is our household responsibility.
2	Anxious for	Anxious about	We are anxious about our results.
3	Overnight fame	Overnight success	Hard-working people never believe in overnight success.
4	Were/become/became married	Get/Got married	My brother got married yesterday.
5	Make a complaint	Lodge/file a complaint	Students lodged a complaint at a police station against the arising air pollution nearby their 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