collocations worth memorizing - suggestions?

[metal56]

Be clear on the types:

Different kinds of collocation
A collocation can be made up of two or more words:
verb + noun make a mistake
adj + noun heavy traffic
adv + verb totally misunderstand
adv + adj extremely generous
adj + prep guilty of ....ing
noun + noun a ceasefire agreement
Collocations can be much longer. For example: adv + verb + adj + noun + prep + noun = seriously affect the political situation in (Northern Ireland).

[metal56]

And on:

Do you happen to know ___________________ ?
Would you happen to know ___________________ ?
Is there any particular reason why ________________ ?
It just so happens that ________________________ .
I happened to ________________________________ .
I never thought I would __________________________ .
I bet you never thought that you would _________________ .
As far as I know ___________________________ .
As long as ____________.
___________ as long as ______________ .
I remember the time ____________________ .
Do you remember the time when ____________________ ?
I would appreciate it if __________________________ .
With all due respect ___________________ .
I respectfully disagree __________________ .
Would you be so kind as to __________________

[James Trotta]

I'm glad this turned into such a popular thread! I enjoyed reading all the posts. By the way I picked up Oxford Collocations and it's really good. I am probably going to start recommending it to my students as a reference book and start looking for a book on Korean collocations as I'm studying Korean at the moment....

[Norm Ryder]

jd

However you did, it certainly worked for you!

Thanks, all. And I'll try and take Pink Piggy's advice about the flip chart.

Norm