Category: Tips for learners

What are Collocations?

Post author By John Moen
Post date 31 October 2021
Categories In English, Grammar, Tips for learners
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You might have seen the term collocations, and if not, then perhaps the less technical word-partnerships, or something similar. Even if you don’t remember seeing these terms, you’ve very likely done some language exercises where you should combine verbs and nouns such as do (verb) + housework (noun); or make combinations of adjectives and nouns, […]

Homonyms

Post author By John Moen
Post date 16 October 2021
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Synonyms, you’ve probably heard of. Synonyms are words that have similar meaning to each other. Sick and ill are synonyms, as are buy and purchase. Homonyms, on the other hand, are words that look or sound the same, but have different meanings. The following words are homonyms of each other: to, too, and two. And […]