Beyond single words: the most frequent collocations in spoken English by Dongkwang Shin & Paul Nation (2008)
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-Cities are designated on this map by red dots.
-The money is left at my disposal.
Summary
This study offers a list of the most frequent spoken collocations. Collocation is a combination of two or more words frequently used together. A collocation consists of a pivot word and another word or other words. Ten million words from the spoken section of British National Corpus (BNC) were used as the data source. The top collocation is ‘you know’ with 27,348 times and the third frequent collocation is ‘a bit’ with 7,766 occurrences in the list. Interjection and amplifies are used much more frequently. Therefore, the most frequent collocations could be helpful for improvement of ‘the learners’ language fluency and native-like selection of language use’, especially in an elementary speaking course.
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