Words similar to collocations
Example sentences for: collocations
How can you use “collocations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The important feature is openness, as in collocations like open forest, open forest country, and open forest land.
Collocations dictionaries published in Russia for advanced L2 learners of Russian date back a quarter of a century or so and have developed a very high degree of variety and sophistication over the intervening years.
In Germany the nearest thing to a straight collocations dictionary is E. Agricola's regularly republished Wörter und Wendungen , written for Germans but highly valuable for foreigners using German at an advanced level.
The main general collocations dictionary is Slovar' sochetaemosti slov russkogo yazyka Russian Word-combinatory Dictionary), by P.N. Denisov and V.V. Markovkin (Russki Yazyk, 1983).
Notwithstanding the logistic difficulties of constructing synonym differentiators and collocations dictionaries, particularly the latter, it is now possible for information technology to deliver direct to socalled end-users lexical data retrieval systems of great size, power, and usefulness.