سؤال ۱۴، زبان انگلیسی ۳، دی ۱۴۰۲

متن زیر را با دقت بخوانید و به سؤالات داده شده پاسخ دهید .A collocation is two or more words combined together. These combinations sound natural to native speakers, but students of English have to learn them with exercise because they are often difficult to guess. The unnatural combinations are wrong for native speakers of English. As an example, the adjective "fast" collocates with "cars" but not with "look." Learning collocations is the most important part of learning the vocabulary of a language. Some collocations seem fixed or very strong. In "take a photo," no word other than "take" collocates with the photo to give the same meaning. The other example is "make an effort" and not "do an effort."Some collocations are more open, because several words may go together to give a similar meaning, for example, "keep to or stick to the rules." Sometimes, a pair of words may not be wrong, and people will understand it, but it may not be the natural collocation. If someone says I did a few mistakes, a fluent speaker of English may understand, but it would probably say, "I made a few mistakes."