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Register, Idioms and Collocations

Register, Idioms and Collocations. By R J Phillips. Register The degree of formality or technical language in a text. Suffering from chronic fatigue FORMAL Exhausted Very tired Shattered Knackered Shagged out INFORMAL.

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Register, Idioms and Collocations

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  1. Register, Idioms and Collocations By R J Phillips

  2. RegisterThe degree of formality or technical language in a text • Suffering from chronic fatigue FORMAL • Exhausted • Very tired • Shattered • Knackered • Shagged out INFORMAL

  3. Think of your own scale of formality for the following: • Hunger • Attraction

  4. Idioms • This is one of the most difficult aspects of a language for foreign learners to grasp. They are phrases that can only be understood in context, as the individual words that make up the expression don’t make sense: • For the chop • Put a sock in it • Up the creek • Wind your neck in

  5. Collocations • Groups (commonly pairs) of words that are regularly found used together are known as collocations • Some words have a limited range of collocations eg spick is rarely used apart from with the word span • Other words have no collocational restrictions eg the, after, of • Some words have a large, but still restricted, range of collocations eg long. Its collocations include many expressions of time eg long day, long week and physical distance eg long road, long journey

  6. Tasks • How many collocations can you think of for the word line? • How many collocations can you think of for the word ball?

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