Abstract

COLLOCATIONS AND IDIOMS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Muna Ibrahim Ahmed

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

This research addresses collocations and idioms and the similarities and differences between both. A collocation is a style where certain words are frequently utilized jointly, and seem normal together. While an idiom is often a phrase in which the words jointly give a meaning differs from the lexicon definitions of words. There are many types of collocations and collocations themselves are so many which poses problems and difficulties to both learners and users native or non-native. The research aims at showing the definition, importance and types of collocations and idioms, as well as the similarities and differences between both of them. it has concluded that the learners need to increase their vocabulary knowledge

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