Using Collocations

In this blog post, I’ve used a personal experience of mine to demonstrate, how by employing collocations you can achieve an ease in expression, depth in description to describe what otherwise could be simply beyond words!

Do pay attention to the collocations in bold..

Just a couple of weeks ago, we made a trip to Gangotri, the penultimate point from which the holy Ganges flows (the ultimate being Gomukh-the headwater or the source of Ganga).  Travelling from the scorching heat of the parched city of Delhi to Rishikesh, crossing over Haridwar was already getting pleasant for six of us on journey. The stopover

Collocations – words in company

Collocation – It’s Meaning and Type

Collocations can be defined as words that go together, in a set pattern of word-order, by dint of sheer habit, custom, and convention. Collocation is made of two words: co and location, and denotes to mean, to locate or place a word in company (co) of another word. In the words of Firth, collocation is defined as: “Collocations of a given word are statements of the habitual or customary places of that word.”

When collocations are first introduced, they are introduced as pair–words, a cut chase way of understanding collocation. So, we are told that words like: bread and butter, nut and bolt, hard and fast, loud and clear, are words that always go hand-in-hand, and are collocations.