Because my textbook doesn't have a lot of visual appeal to offer, I'm only going to add one thematically relevant picture to this post. Enjoy the pretty, irrelevant Kunming flowers. The title for the post comes from an exercise we had as homework to practice some new vocabulary. This particular exercise is "collocation": you're given a list of vocabulary words, and instructed to add a noun, or verb, or some other specific part of speech in order to create a suitable and grammatical combination. For simpler exercises, you're given words like "conserve," and told to add a noun (e.g. "conserve labor"), or "hooligan," and told to add an adjective (e.g. "loud hooligan"). From a language learner's perspective, this is actually a very useful exercise, giving practice in creating short verb phrases and noun phrases and offering
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