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Sommario: 1. Collocations: a definition. - 2. Strong, fixed and weak collocations. - 3. Grammatical categories of collocation.  -

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Collocations: a definition

1. A collocation is a combination of two or more words wich frequently occur together.
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3. You can find the meaning of any new words in your dictionary.
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Strong, fixed and weak collocations

A garden

1. A strong collocation is one in wich the words are very closely associated with each other.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Grammatical categories of collocation

A drink

1. Verb + noun:
1.1 draw up: a list, a contract.
1.2 Our lawer drew up a contract for use to sign: prepare something, usually official, in writing.

2.You can create phrasal verbs by adding different particles to a basic verbs.

3. In some phrasal verbs the particle has a clear basic meaning.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Collocation: a definition.

1. A collocation is a pair or group of words that are often used together.
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Intensying adverbs

A garden

1. In English there are lots of other ways of saying very or very much.
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3. give: I gave my essay in yesterday.
4. Her parents finally gave in and let her go to the party.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Everyday verbs

A drink

1. Make.
1.1 make arrangements for = The school can make arrangements for pupils with special needs.

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3. In some phrasal verbs the particle has a clear basic meaning.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Idioms: a definition

1. Idioms are a type of formulaic language.
2. Formulaic language consists of fixed expressions which you learn and understand as units rather than as individual words.
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Proverbs

A garden

1. Proverbs are short sentences wich refer to something most people have experience and wich give advice or warnings.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Euphemisms

A drink

1. Euphemisms are a type of idiom to avoid saying words wich may offend or be considered unpleasant.

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3. In some phrasal verbs the particle has a clear basic meaning.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Idioms: a definition

1. Udioms are expressions wich have a meaning that is not obvious from the individual words.
2. The best way to unerstand an idioms is to see it in context.
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Health

on the sea

1. Mark had been feeling under the weatger for week.
1.1 under the weather = not very well.
2. One day he came into work looking like death warmed up and so we told him to go away for a few days to recharge his batteries.
2.1 looking like death warmed up = looking extremely ill
2.2 recharge his batteries = do something to gain fresh energy and entusiams.
3. After one day beside the sea, he no longer felt off-colour and by the second day he knew he was on the road to recovery.
3.1 felt off-colour = felt umwell
3.2 on the road to recovery = getting better.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Happiness and sadness

the moon

1. There are many informal idioms wich mean extremely happy.
1.1 I’m thrilled to bits.
1.2 I am/feel on top of the world.
1.3 I’m on cloud nine.
1.4 I’m over the moon.
1.5 I’m in seveth heaven,

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3. In some phrasal verbs the particle has a clear basic meaning.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Sommario: 1. Phrasal verbs: a definition. -  2. Grammar of phrasal verbs. - 3. Phrasal nouns. -

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Phrasal verbs: a definition.

1. Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle (a preposition or adverb) or a verb and two particles (an adverb and a preposition).
2. They are identified by their grammar, but it is best to think of them as individual vocabulary items, to be learnt in phrases or chunks.
3. They often have a one-word equivalent.
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Grammar of phrasal verbs

An old hotel

1. Some phrasal verbs take an object: transitive.
2. Others do not take an object: intransitive.
3. Transitive:
3.1 They’re knocking down the old hotel.
3.2 The plumber soon sorted out the shower problem.
3.3 She tied her hair back so he could work better.
4. Intransitive: The path branched of to the river.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Phrasal nouns

A drink

1. Like phrasal verbs, phrasal nouns consist of a verb combined with a particle.

2. The particle may come before or after the verb.

3.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Phrasal verbs: the basics

1. Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle.
2. look up: You can look up any new words in your dictionary.
3. You can find the meaning of any new words in your dictionary.
4. get through: I tried to phone her but I couldn‘t get through.
5. I tried to phone her but I couldn’t get a connection.
6. make out: I just can’t make Jim out at all.
7. I just can’t understand Jim’s behaviour.
8. Particles are small words wich you already know as preposition or adverbs.
9. Here are some of the most common phrasal verb particles: about, (a)round, at, away, back, down, for, in, into, off, on, out, over, through, to, up.
10. You need to know the meaning of the whole phrasal verbs as a unit.

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Phrasal verbs: what they mean

A garden

1. Here are the most commons verbs that form part of phrasal verbs: break, bring, call, come, get, give, go, keep. knock, look, make, pass, pick, pull, put, run, set, take, turn.
2. The basic meanings in the verbs in fc2/1 refer to concrete actions, but when they are part of phrasal verbs, they often have abstract meaning too.
3. give: I gave my essay in yesterday.
4. Her parents finally gave in and let her go to the party.
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6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Particle in phrasal verbs

A drink

1. A particle is either a preposition or an adverb.

2.You can create phrasal verbs by adding different particles to a basic verbs.

3. In some phrasal verbs the particle has a clear basic meaning.
4. Jack invited me out: let’s go out together.
5. Rosie invited me in: Please come in!
6. Jil invited me over: Come to our place.
7. Paul invited me round: Come to my house for dinner or a drink.
8. Mark invited me up: come upstairs to my flat.
9. Susie invited me along: come with us!
10. Bill invited me back: come back home with me.

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Abbreviations and acronyms

1. Abbreviations are simply the shortening of words and expressions.
2. These are some common abbreviations from Latin:
3. e.g. for example, from exempli gratia.
4. i.e. that is, from id est.
5. NB note well, from nota bene.
6. AD the year of Our Lord, used to count years from the birth of Christ, from Anno Domini.

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Prefixes: creating new meanings 
Over-, Under-, Up-,  Cross-

A garden

1. Over- may indicated an excess of something (a), or something that covers or dominates something (b), or the crossing of some kind of barrier (c).
2. Excess: That film was overrated in my view.
3. Excess: It was a bad restaurant, with an overpriced menu.
4. Cover: In this program, you can choose to overwrite the existing file or to save it as a new file.
5. Cover: Our garden is overshadowed by the block of flats next door.
6. Cover: She always felt overshadowed by her older, more successful, sister.
7. Cross: He overstepped the mark when he said that.
8. Will you be staying overnight?
9. Under- may indicate less than the desidered amount (a), or something below another thing (b), or some kind of negative behaviour (c).
10. Less: Don’t underestimate the time it will take.

A door

11. Less: The company is seriously understaffed.
12. Below: It’s quiet wet underfoot? Did it rain last night?
13. Below: The underlying question is a very difficult one.
14. Negative: I wish you would not undermine everything I do.
15. Negative: He did it a very in a very underhand way.
16. Up- can suggest a change of some kind, often positive.
17. The airline upgraded me to businnes class.
18. There has been an upturn in the economy.
19. Cross- (from across) usually indicates a link between two separated things.
20. Cross-border cooperation has led to a number of arrests of drug smugglers.
21. Cross-cultural misunderstanding often happen.

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Suffixes: productive suffixes and word classes:
-able, -conscious, -esque, - free, -rich, -led, -minded, -proof, -related, -ridden, -worthy.

Jacket

1. Some suffisses are productive, i.e. used to create new words.

2. You therefore need to understand their meaning if you are reading contemporary English.

3. -able can be used productive, whereas -ible never is.
4. Note that -able means ‘can be’: a washable jacket is onte that can be washed.
5. In the word washable, wash is the root and able is the suffix.
6. Disposable nappies, predictable results, avoidable problems, a manageable situation.
7. -conscious: combines with nouns to form adjectives that describe people who consider one aspect of their lives especially important: health-conscious person, class-conscius society, safety-conscius company, time-conscius workforce.
8.  -esque combines with the names of of famous people to form adjectives that describe something or someone similar in style: Picassoesque paintings.
9. -free combines with nouns describing something undesiderable to form adjectives to describe nouns without that indesiderable aspect: stress-free diet, tax-free shop, additive-free foof.
10. -rich combines with nouns (often chemical or organic substances) to form adjectives to describe nouns with a lot of that substance: fibre-rich diet, calcium-rich foods.

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