Guide to English - Collocations

Rounding up what we have learned    As we managed to illustrate the English language is very versatile and colorful and collocations play a large part in the English language's colorfulness. The collocations we have learned together will form the fundamentals of your fluency in the English language and provide useful templates of speech. As the last lesson, I have some other common collocations which can be used anywhere and they will help you use and speak the English language more fluently and sound more confident while doing so. Thank you for learning collocations with me, take care and goodbye!

 The General Collocations of Work Keeping in line with the topic of work , we are gonna explore some of the more general terms you should be familiar with. These collocations will help you describe what do you require from a potential workplace since it is important to be able to explain what you require and why you do or do not accept a job offer given to you. So let's get into it : Out of these presented collocations many of them are crucial for you to understand to understand what kind of work you are getting into. If you are looking for a job with flexible working hours that means the job accommodates that you choose when you start working so instead of the standard 9 to 5 you can choose to come in earlier or later. Having a minimum wage job means your salary is the lowest legal amount your boss can pay you ,this is overall very unfavorable for you as a worker. A job with a good work life balance means you don't have too long working hours and have time to relax , and ...

 The Collocations of Business  The business world is a rather complex and fancy one. When we think of a businessman we typically think an elegant suit , expensive car and someone who makes a lot of money.  Well this this elegance is reflected in the language of business because of the specific language register of business talk ; that being formal , elegant but sometimes needlessly complex.  The collocations used in the world of business give us a quick glimpse on how people talk in this professional context and are very useful if you trying to speak English more naturally and also more elegantly.  As you can see from the provided examples that these collocations no longer just involve a specific word such as " have ", " take " or " make " but make use of specific terms like " partnership ", " market " " deal " , " sales " etc. You would think that these collocations can only be used in this very specific context tha...