Would you like to find adjective-noun COLLOCATIONS and adverb-adjective COLLOCATIONS with me?

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Would you like to find adjective-noun COLLOCATIONS and adverb-adjective COLLOCATIONS with me?

serene

adjective + noun
strong cheese
severe winter
heavy drinker
strong influence
fair decision
sore throat
rich dessert
practical joke
tough steak
short cut
spitting image

adverb + adjective
deeply hurt
brutally murdered
perfectly natural
vitally important
highly recommended
widely available
heavily criticised
closely associated
enthusiastically received
utterly stupid

Some more here

21 Nov 2010

Great link, Serene...Eternally grateful to you for sharing!

P.S.: This is fun!

21 Nov 2010

Very useful, Serene!Thanks for sharing it!

21 Nov 2010

Just came across another good one: near miss

And here are some more:
- smart appearance
- bright smile
- heavy eyebrows
- receding hairline
- nasty accident/ habit
- (of a person) a nasty piece of work
- a nasty business
- more collocations with nasty here
- bad apple
- bad blood
- bad debt
- bad faith
- bad form
- bad hair day

I �m really starting to like this and I have to concentrate on work Tongue

Tongue

21 Nov 2010

elderberrywine

I �m working on a worksheet on this - instead of working , if you know what I mean.
(I should be preparing tomorrow �s classes but prefer this... especially since I �ve come across serene �s wonderful link!)

21 Nov 2010

uncomfortable silence

eery silence

uneasy silence

comfortably numb (yeah, Pink floyd)

deeply sorry

21 Nov 2010

elderberrywine

Since several of you asked to be notified:
The worksheet is in today �s contributions.
Thanks for joining me in the fun.

23 Nov 2010

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