In the jargon of linguistics, English lexicographer Henry Watson Fowler popularized the significant expression and precise term "collocation." It is the sequence of words or terms which are found to ...

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A few days ago, I had an encounter with an old student of mine at a shopping mall. He said, “Sir, you taught us Technical English almost nine years ago. Though I don’t remember everything, there is ...