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| Description | Example | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Wrong phrase: 'yesterday night' (last night) | I was there yesterday night. | Collocations |
| Wrong phrase: 'today night' (tonight) | I'm going fishing today night. | Collocations |
| Wrong collocation: 'worry for' (worry about) | Don't worry for. | Collocations |
| a sinking (s)hip | The idiom 'like rats fleeing a sinking hip is used in reference to people abandoning an enterprise once it seems likely to fail. | Collocations |
| Collocation: apply to/for | You can apply to welfare. | Collocations |
| Collocation: apply for/to | You try and apply for another University! | Collocations |
| Collocation: Sit in/at | At lunch, I eat with my colleague working or I eat in my desk alone. | Collocations |
| Collocation: Between ... to/and ... | Children between three to five are cute. | Collocations |
| Collocation: Well in/on | I do badly in tests because I'm lazy. | Collocations |
| Collocation: Admitted at/to | On his way to an interview to be admitted at Princeton College, Quentin and his childhood best friend James arrive on a crime scene where they find the corpse of the man who was supposed to interview the former, along with a very nonchalant paramedic. | Collocations |
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