Make + A + Cake - Grammar: Collocations

Friday! Hurrah!
After a week of Bipolar weather and the realisation that some of you, could only have ONE MONTH left before you go to trial with the Gods of Cambridge (your exam), I'm sure that your heaving a sigh of relief at the thought, that Saturday is only one sleep away.
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So today's task on the agenda is that of grammar. To be precise, Collocations. 

Collocations are simply common word combinations, could also be defined as two or more words that often go together like parts of a jigsaw puzzle.

There are many types of collocations. These combinations could be made with different head words as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.

For example, "take a break" or "have an appointment"

There are over 150,000 collocations and to give you a full list to learn would be crazy! However, the following site does have a very organised list of the most commonly used.

https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Collocations/

An example of a collocation made up by adjective + noun could be: "bitter lemon".

There are also many collocations made up by an adjective and a preposition. 

Have look at the following collocations chart where you can find many of the most useful adjective+preposition collocations: 

Take a look at the following exercises, some of them are challenging but they are great practice as collocations are used in every part of your exam.

https://www.english-in-chester.co.uk/e-learning/lesson/collocations/

http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/intermediate-grammar-exercise-collocations

https://www.englishpractice.com/vocabulary/collocations-exercise-3/

Well done. You've finished! We'll be back on Monday for some more training.

Have a great weekend ;)