Collocation is the way in which particular words tend to occur or belong together.
“Meals with be served outside on the terrace, wheater permitting”.
But not “Meals with be served outside on the terrace, wheater allowing”
Both
these sentences seem to mean the same thing : allow and permit have
very similuiar meanings. But in this combination only permitting in correct. It
collocates with wheater and allowing does not .
TYPE OF
COLLOCATION
In order to write and speak natural and correct English, you
need to know, for example:
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Which adjectives are used with a particular noun
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Which nouns a particular adjective is used with
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Which verbs are used with a particular noun
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Which adverbs are use to intensity a particular
adjective
Collacation
in this dictionary
To
find out which adjective to use with a particular noun .
Look
at the example at the entry for the noun. Typical adjective used with the noun
are separated by a slash (/).
Source: Oxford Dictionary
