Example sentences for: collocational

How can you use “collocational” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In fact, it is not stretching things too much to say that first-class collocational control is the hallmark of the true L2 expert; collocational control is normally the last linguistic subsystem to be mastered by learners who proceed to an advanced level.

  • Those who are not familiar with this type of dictionary--that is, one that provides learners with grammatical, collocational, and idiomatic information far beyond what might be expected in an ordinary monolingual dictionary-- should familiarize themselves with the well-known precedent, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary English , by A.S. Hornby, long a classic in the field.

  • In each case, a word or phrase that provides a synonym appears in a box, followed by the pronunciation(s), followed by a part-of-speech label, followed by a symbol in brackets keyed to grammatical information given in the forematter ([T] being the symbol for “transitive verb, which has an object”), the definition and a series of collocational examples.


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