摘要：The aims of this research are to describe the dominant words which collocatewith prepositions at, for, in and on, to describe the types of grammaticalcollocation in English, to describe the most frequent combinations ofgrammatical collocation, to describe the meaning of grammatical collocationsin English. The source of the data is Oxford collocation dictionary, AgathaChristieâs novel âThe Man in the Brown Suitâ and internet provider.This research uses a qualitative descriptive method. The results show that thereare 4 main categories and 6 sub-categories. The categories are; 1) noun +preposition (countable noun + preposition and uncountable noun + preposition),2) preposition + noun (preposition + abstract noun and preposition + concretenoun), 3) adjective + noun (descriptive adjective + preposition and derivationaladjective + preposition) and 4) verb + preposition. The most frequentcombination of English grammatical collocation is preposition + noun (G4)with 67 (33, 5%) of the whole data, meanwhile, 62 (31 %) data is in the patternof noun + preposition (G1) then, adjective+ preposition (G5) with 51 (25,5%)and the last is verb + preposition (G8) with 20 data (10%) data. All of thecollocations in this research have grammatical meaning.
