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Sports collocations
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SPORTSCOLLOCATIONS
What are collocations?
Collocations are combinations of words which are usually used together.
Do a favour
Make a decision
Learning collocations will make your English sound more natural.
Sports collocations
When you talk about sport in general:
Many Spanish speakers say *"practice sport" in sentences like:
"I like to *"practice sport" at the weekend"
But this is an "Spanglish" mistake. Instead you need to say:
"I like to do sport at the weekend"
Sports collocations
When we want to talk about specific sports we have to distinguish between:
do vs. play
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go
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exceptions
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What about practicing these verb collocations?
Test your knowledge with the quiz in the link below:
https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/417.html