Big, Large, Great, Deep, Strong, or Heavy?

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Don’t say ā€œI’ll have a big coffeeā€
Say ā€œI’ll have a large coffeeā€

Don’t say ā€œIt was a large successā€
Say ā€œIt was a great successā€

Don’t say ā€œI’m in heavy troubleā€
Say ā€œI’m in deep troubleā€

Why do the first sentences sound strange, but the second ones sound natural? The answer is collocations! Collocations are two or more words that go together naturally. Learning them is essential for making your English sound fluent and natural!

Today we’ll learn 50 common English collocations with the words big, great, large, deep, strong, and heavy. These all seem rather similar, but they are used in DIFFERENT combinations of words.

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