Vocabulary
Collocations
Collocations are when two words naturally go together. For example, we say “make a change” and not “do a change.” Understanding collocations is important for learning new vocabulary for many reasons: Improve your communication: Collocations help us communicate more naturally and fluently. Learning to speak and understand full sentences: We never speak singular words, and collocations
Word Families
Word Families are the various types of the same word.Learning word families is useful to grow your vocabulary quicker and to know how and when to use each word type. Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Successor (person) Succeed Successful successfully Success (concept) Unsuccessful unsuccessfully Player (person) play Playful Playfully Play (object)
Nouns
Nouns are the names of: 1. Physical objects (cars, chairs, rice) 2. People (Angie, Phil, teacher, worker, the baby, my cousins, artist) 3. Concepts (education, freedom, attraction, happiness)4. Places (hospital, home, park, city, field) We use pronouns to replace nouns and avoid repetition. (David likes Jackie. He likes her a lot!)Jenny and I party with