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🔹 What are Collocations (and why they’re confusing)?
Collocations are words that naturally go together in English.Native speakers use them automatically… but learners often try to translate or guess them.
👉 That’s where the confusion starts.
❗ Why they’re confusing:
Because many combinations are NOT logical.
For example:
- ❌ Do a decision → sounds wrong
- ✅ Make a decision → correct
Why? There’s no rule. It’s just how English works.
🔹 Common Collocations
🧠 With “make” and “do”
- Make a mistake (not do a mistake)
- Make money
- Do homework (not make homework)
- Do exercise
💬 With verbs + nouns
- Take a break (not make a break)
- Have a meeting (not do a meeting)
- Give advice (not make advice)
🔥 Natural combinations
- Strong coffee (not powerful coffee)
- Heavy rain (not strong rain)
- Big mistake (not large mistake)
⚠️ Common mistake:
Students translate from Spanish:
- ❌ Make a party
- ✅ Have a party
💡 Key idea:
You don’t learn English word by word…👉 You learn it in chunks.
That’s how you sound natural.
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