Sorry for not being able to explain collocation clearly in the lesson today. The following is what I've found on a dictionary website. Hope it's helpful.
When words are used together regularly, rules are formed about their use not for grammatical reasons, but because of the association. 'Black and white' appear in that order because of collocation; they are always in that order and to put them the other way around seems wrong. For the same reason we 'make a mistake' when we 'do a test'. The reason for using these verbs with these is that we always do; this is collocation.
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haha now i understand the meaning of collocations.
collocations= words that go together and form a specific meaning.
yeayea something like that. sounds weird though haha :D
Who is Karen?
ohwells. who is piggy? :]]
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