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COLLOCATION
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Idioms [1]
Traditionally, idiom is defined as an expression whose
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Idioms [2]
An idiom may briefly characterized as a lexical
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Feature of idioms
The elements are not separately modifiable without loss of idiomatic
Collocation
It is a relation within a syntactic unit between individual lexical
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Examples of Collocation
great
heavy
high
utter
extreme deep
severe
Frost
Rain
Wind
Surprise
Distress
temperature
speed
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Aya/semantics/Idiomsandcollocation
Aya/semantics/Idiomsandcollocation
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Aya/semantics/Idiomsandcollocation