摘要：Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more
often than would be expected by chance. Collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used
together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs or which verbs and nouns are used
together. Collocations are examples of lexical units and should not be confused with idioms. Unlike the majority
of idioms, collocations are subject to syntactic modification. For example, we can say effective writing and write
effectively. Learning collocations will help a learner speak and write English in a more natural and formal way.
A native speaker listener will know what make a crime means but commit a crime is standard usage. Learning
collocations increases the range of one’s English vocabulary, so as to avoid or go beyond words like very or nice
by choosing a word that fits the context better and has a more precise meaning.
