You can look up any word and see which other words are usually used with it. I don't think there's one online, but the Oxford Collocations Dictionary You'll often see the same phrases again and again. If you have to write about a topic, try to find a newspaper article or a magazine article about that topic and look at the phrases that the journalist uses.
When you're reading, look at which words go together. If you learn the whole phrase ('get married to someone'), then you won't make this mistake. But this isn't the normal way in English. Many languages use 'with' after 'marry' (which certainly seems more logical!). Set phrases, verb patterns, and idioms are really just strong examples of collocations too.įor example, in English, we say 'get married to someone'. In fact, I think that almost every word in English has other words that it usually goes with. It's very difficult to give a list of collocations, because there are so many. If you use the normal collocation ('heavy rain') your English will sound a lot better and more natural and it will be easier for native speakers to understand you. A native English speaker would never say 'big rain'. It's correct grammatically to say 'strong rain' or 'big rain', but both of these sound completely strange. For example, in English, we usually say 'heavy rain'. A collocation is a group of words that usually go together.
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