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  2. Collocation - Wikipedia

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    Collocations can be in a syntactic relation (such as verb–object: make and decision), lexical relation (such as antonymy), or they can be in no linguistically defined relation. Knowledge of collocations is vital for the competent use of a language: a grammatically correct sentence will stand out as awkward if collocational preferences are ...

  3. English collocations - Wikipedia

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    Skilled users of the language can produce effects such as humor by varying the normal patterns of collocation. This approach is popular with poets , journalists and advertisers . Collocations may seem natural to native writers and speakers, but are not obvious to non-native speakers.

  4. Collocation extraction - Wikipedia

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    Collocation extraction is the task of using a computer to extract collocations automatically from a corpus.. The traditional method of performing collocation extraction is to find a formula based on the statistical quantities of those words to calculate a score associated to every word pairs.

  5. Colocation - Wikipedia

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    Colocation centre, a data center where companies can rent equipment, space, and bandwidth for computing services, known as colocation services; Collocation, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together Collocation, a sub-type of phraseme; Collocation method, used in mathematics to solve differential and integral equations

  6. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    CollocationsCollocation in English is the tendency for words to occur together with others. For example, nouns and verbs that go together ("ride a bike" or "drive a car"). Native speakers tend to use chunks [clarification needed] of collocations and ESL learners make mistakes with collocations.

  7. Lexical approach - Wikipedia

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    Related work on collocation is reported by Sinclair (1987) and Kennedy (1989), and the Collins COBUILD English Course (Willis & Willis 1988) is cited as an exemplary pedagogic implementation of the work, though "in fact, however, the COBUILD textbooks utilize one of the more complex hybrid syllabi in current ESL texts" (Long & Crookes 1993:23).

  8. Colocation (business) - Wikipedia

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    Colocation is often used in the data sourcing industry to mean off-site data storage, usually in a data center.This is very important for businesses since the loss of data can be crucial for companies of any size, up to and including disciplinary action for employees or loss of their jobs. [3]

  9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. Consider then we come but in despite. We do not come as minding to content you, Our true intent is. All for your delight We are not here. That you should here repent you,