Set Phrases + Collocation And How To Improve It

Set Phrases + Collocation And How To Improve It

Set Phrases and collocation are great way to concentrate your mind's memory capabilities on small points and thus go step improving your language skills

Mastering useful and wide-spread grammar patterns is one of the priorities some language learner. There are wealth of methods, approaches and techniques which are designed to fix grammar pattterns. Despite the wide range of approaches any students still lack appropriate usage the grammar and goes with their mistaken.

In this articles, we will present the approach proposed by scoot, s well-known methodologist, linguist and an internationally recognized academic and teacher trainer in the filed of language teaching (ELT)

Natural grammar is make of students and teacher think about new way to analyse grammatical structure according to functional approach. This is achieved by focusing on the actual patterns of use normal speaking. in the grammar lexis of words, different than some fixed patterns which are instrustes according to strict rules.

As we know grammar is presented in this book as a language made up of lexical chunks of meaning, which are shown to be part of dynamic process of communication.

 The dynamic process is taken as a basis of the natural flow of communication. that is way, in the famous book ' natural grammar' scoot mentions that thought the book is about grammar, it is organized around words.

According to him, Even very simple words have grammar since you have to choose from particular grammar patterns associated with the given word.

The way to improve your use of collocations

1# Notice collocations. when you are  reading book, look at which word go together. If you have write about a topic, try to find a newspaper article or magazine article about the topic and look at the phrases that the journalist uses. You will often see the same phrases again and again.

2# Use a collocation dictionary. I don't think there one online, but the Oxford Collocations Dictionary is very useful book. You can look up any word and see which other words are usually used with it.

3# If you don't have a collocation dictionary, a leaner's dictionary will give you several good example of phrases for each word, as well as telling you which preposition and so on the word is used with.

4# When you study vocabulary, learn whole phrases, not a individual word.

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