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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, December 22, 2011

1 WHAT IS COLLOCATION?


Picture source: englishharmony.com
http://englishharmony.com/how-to-learn-natural-english-collocations/
Words that occur together frequently 'collocate'.
Words that don't collocate never occur together. If we
try, they sound unnatural and wrong:
Wrong time speeds, travels, rides, moves (= they don't
collocate)
True: Time flyes /goes by/wears on /pusses. (= they collocate)
There are no rules we can use to learn collocations.
There is often no logical reason why some words
are possible and others are not:
We can talk about an academic year. (but not
 A studying year) Discussions can be productive or
fruitful. (but not prolific)
We learn a collocation by discovering it, learning it
and using it - in the same way as other vocabulary.
Source: Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced Learners.

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