Salam and Good Day to all readers !
Wow! How fast the time moves, now we are in the middle of January in the new year 2012. Hope everything is as planned and all of you are as energetic as usual.
Well, for today's entry I just want to share a very simple lesson which commonly known by us but yet many of us too, tend to make mistakes in using it. The lesson is about "collocations". What is collocations ? Collocations is words that go together. To be more specific, the two words must be used together in every phrase or sentence that we want to produce . Here are a few examples of collocations :
be absent from
be accustomed to
be afraid of
be agree with (someone), agree about/on (something)
talk to/with (someone), talk about (something)
These are only a few examples of collocations or also known as preposition combinations for all words are combined with prepositions like at,in,of ,to, with, from,etc.
Mistakes always done by users in choosing the correct preposition to be combined . For instance, the phrase good at language/English/Maths always mistakenly used as good in language/English/Maths. The same goes to go by foot. This is wrong to mean go walking because the correct usage is go on foot.
It's very common to make mistakes like these :
A: How do you reach here?
B: I come by foot . My house is just a stone throw from here. ( The correct one is come on foot )
C: I'm interested at him because he is very good in winning my heart. ( The correct one : interested in , good at )
I think it's enough for this time . Hope all readers may benefit from this entry.
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