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Sports collocations

Marina Bueno Mellado

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SPORTSCOLLOCATIONS

What are collocations?

Collocations are combinations of words which are usually used together.

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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