Chapter 11

Collocations and Word Forms

Words that go together and changing word class correctly.

Collocations

  • Words that naturally pair: make a decision, do homework, heavy rain, strong coffee.

Word forms

  • Change class with suffixes: beauty (n) → beautiful (adj) → beautifully (adv).
  • succeed (v) → success (n) → successful (adj).

Key idea

Collocations are natural word pairings (make a decision); word forms change class with suffixes (success/successful).

Remember

Say 'make a decision' and 'do homework' — these pairings are fixed.

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