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car park, post office, narrow-minded, shoelaces, 
teapot. 
People begin to recognize and understand simple compound words, such as 
airplane 
and 
toothbrush, 
in first grade, then progress to more complex compound 
words. It is not easy to separate collocations and compounds. 
Although “Phrasal verbs” are formed from two or three words, their 
distinctive feature is that they have a particular meaning. Phrasal verbs are words 
that consist of a verb and a particle. Particle can be prepositions or adverbs like: 
at, 
for, in, of, (a) round. 
For example: 
look at, move up, miss out, and keep away 
Some of the phrasal verbs form one word when they are used as a noun: e.g. crack 
down (v) – crackdown (n) 
make up (v) – make-up (n)
Idioms are groups of words in a fixed order that have a meaning that cannot 
be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words. For example, 
pass 

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the buck 
is an idiom meaning “to pass responsibility for a problem to another 
person to avoid dealing with it oneself. 
Following methods will be useful for improving the usage of collocations: 
1.
Notice collocations.
When you are reading, look at which words go 
together. If you have to write about a topic, try to find a newspaper article or a 
magazine article about that topic and look at the phrases that the journalist uses. 
You’ll often see the same phrases again and again. It is a good idea to learn these. 
Sample of newspaper articles:
Look at these extracts from letters to an international magazine. 
Global problems. The environment. 
Your article on 
climate change
was excellent.