One of the first things I ask my students is to tell me how they learned to ask somebody's name and their age? They learned by heart, without questioning. This can not apply to all learning leanring in chunks is indded very useful. Something like a chunk is a collocation: two (or more) words which sound natural in English like 'fast car' and 'fast food' but not quick car and quick food, or make a call instead of do a call. Why make and not do? Just because. ... (expand)
This may be handy for teachers, students and translators alike, and anyone who needs English.
You are not sure if two words can collocate, go together and sound natural in English, you can check whether they "collocate" using the following links:
You may want to use google and and type the words ensuring you type the words in quotations marks so you get the results with the two words in the order you want to know about.
Identify collocations:
American: http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/%22seating+capacity%22/
British: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
There are other corpus although they may not be free and offer free access.
Another website I have just discovered (6 March 2015) is www.just-the-word.com
Type a word, see collocations, click on them to see the in a corpora
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com
http://prowritingaid.com/collocations-dictionary/button/Collocations-of-button.aspx
a blog: high frequency and low frequency collocaitons http://collocations.ooz.ie/
Collocation books:
Cambridge in Use, Key words for fluency.
List of frequent collocations: https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/collocations-lists.htm
Translations
www.linguee.com
and www.reverso.com although I don't usually resort to this one, some people like it.
Dictionarys can help sometimes too.
Questions of tricky areas:
https://www.englishforums.com/English/WayOfOrWayTo/dljkj/post.htm
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