If you see the word ‘something’, it usually means the verb requires an object. If ‘something’ is in the middle of the phrasal verb, it means that it can be separated by the object (but ...

Lexical confusion frequently involves phrasal verbs, idiomatic phrases ... of “their”, “think” instead of “thing”, “sea” instead of “see”, collocation and word meanings, especially connotations. As a ...

(2011) conducted an eye-tracking study on 30 reversible binomials and their reversed forms to explore the role of phrasal frequency in L1 and ... in Gyllstad and Wolter (2016), the congruent verb + ...

He said, “Collocation,” and continued ... In British English, some verbs that collocate with the base appointment are have/arrange, book, fix and in American English, the verbs that ...

Roddy Frantz and his band Urban Verbs were at the center of D.C.’s music scene before there was a scene. In the late 1970s, The Urban Verbs were Washington D.C.'s most popular band. Robert ...

Stimuli consisted of 36 pairs of four-character verb-noun collocations where the members of each pair used the same verb (e.g., 保护, “protect”) but a different noun. Based on phrasal frequency and MI, ...

They also test in increasing levels of difficulty, the knowledge of collocations, phrasal verbs, fixed phrases, complementation, and idiomatic expressions. What is PET (B1 Preliminary): It is a ...