Re: Help with collocations, please

On Jun 2, 4:22 am, "Django Cat" <notar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This fine morning I'm working on the e-learning project on studies
skills for
> Doctoral students I've been commissioned to develop. I'm writing about
how a
> knowledge of collocations is essential to develop academic writing
skills, and
> I'm putting together a table of examples. (Collocations are words which
> commonly hang out with each other in phrases which form accepted blocks
of
> meaning. In this context I'm looking especially at collocations with
adjectives
> and adverbs).
>
> This is what I've got so far:
>
> adverb + adjective
> abundantly clear
....

"This whole subject" "is part and parcel of" something "your average"
writer should "leave severely alone".

--
Jerry Friedman