Let’s continue with some more verbal collocations. You will also see that some of them are part of larger expressions, sometimes idiomatic expressions. Foot/feet occur in quite a few; most of them are pretty easy to understand: This man who wouldn’t have been…
O livro Inglês para professor pretende ajudar educadores brasileiros a desenvolver seus conhecimentos de inglês nas áreas de gramática, vocabulário e pronúncia, de modo que consigam usar o idioma com mais habilidade e, consequentemente, ensinar de maneira eficaz.
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Red tape Red tape = too much paperwork that slows down business; bureaucracy (papelada; burocracia)
There is always a lot of red tape to take care of before releasing your goods from the port.
Há sempre muita papelada para cuidar antes de liberar os produtos do porto.
The…
When you point a finger at someone… there are three fingers pointing at you! - Stella Tagnin
26/11/2015
This time we’re going to look at some verbal collocations (verb + noun) with body parts. We’re starting with hands and fingers.
You probably know quite a few of them, but there’s always something new. I hope the accompanying images will make their meanings clear. She…
Mr. Right a man who would be an ideal partner in a relationship (marido ou companheiro ideal) “Stop holding out for Mr. Right and try to meet someone tonight,” Larissa told Kate.
“Pare de ficar esperando encontrar o homem perfeito e tente conhecer alguém hoje à…
This month we’re going to look at collocations with finger followed by a noun. Here is the list produced by COCA (https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). As usual, all examples are taken from that corpus: As you can see, the most common collocation is Finger Lakes, an area in…
Por Vanessa Prata*
Sempre tive vontade de aprender a andar de skate, mas meus pais nunca foram muito fãs da ideia e, como também não insisti muito, passei a infância e adolescência sem ter um, apenas de vez em quando brincando com o de algum primo ou amigo. Ao…
Coriza / nariz escorrendo – Runny nose Peter always gets a little cranky when he has a runny nose.
O Peter sempre fica um pouco irritado quando tem coriza.
O verbo to run, que normalmente significa “correr”, também pode ser “escorrer”, no contexto de…
A search for foot/feet, immediately preceded by a noun, in the COCA turned out the chart below.
A close look at the list will reveal that seven (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11 and 12) out of the 22 lines are related to foot as a measurement unit: a foot is equivalent…
