Espresso English Collocations Pdf

[John]

InEnglish, a collocation is two or more words that go togethernaturally. Learning collocations is essential for making yourEnglish sound fluent and natural!

Here are 50 common English collocations with the words big, great,large, deep, strong, and heavy.

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This Wikipedia page says, "In contrast to collocation, co-occurrence assumes interdependency of the two terms". But I'm not really sure what that means by interdependency of the two terms. Can someone explain it more?

This is a really interesting question. I did some reading, and it looks like "co-occurrence" refers to when terms occur in the same document (corpus, paragraph, sentence). They do not necessarily need to be adjacent. For example, when the term "strong coffee" appears in a document, the term "espresso bean" probably also tends to occur in that document.

On the other hand, a "collocation" is two words that frequently appear together, in the adjacent sense. So, "strong coffee" is a collocation, because we see those terms occur next to each other more often than would be expected from pure chance. Hypothetically, the term "powerful coffee" is a synonym, but we very rarely see these two words occur next to each other.

Figure 1. An example stimulus. Collocations are shown underlined with the alternative strong and weak collocations separated using a slash. These stimuli were shown as normal in the experiment, including either strong or weak collocation.

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