Chapter 1 the study of collocations

Table 9.  Collocation types included in the translation test. 
 
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TYPES 
Group1 Group2 Group3 
1. Noun Preposition  2 2 2 
5. Adjective Preposition 
1 2 2 
11. SV(O) Preposition O 
2 2 1 
13. SV Infinitive 
1 0 1 
14. SV V-ing 
1 1 1 
16. SVO Infinitive  1 1 1 
23. SV(O) Adverbial 1 0 0 
27. Verb Noun (creation) 
1 2 2 
 
 
TOTAL: 
    10   
10 
         10 
 
3.3.4  Blank-Filling 
 
 
Finally a blank-filling test was also included.  This test measured cued 
production of  collocations.  There were a number of sentences in English (50 
sentences for Group 1, 65 for Group 2, and 90 for Group 3), containing 
collocations in context.  Each sentence contained one collocation.  In each 
sentence, one part of the collocation was replaced by a blank and students were 
asked to read the sentence and provide one suitable word for each blank.  As 
with the translation test, the collocations tested in the blank-filling test were 
selected from those appearing in the students' textbooks, and they were 
different from their Greek equivalents (see Appendix E for the sentences 
 
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included in the blank-filling tests with the intended collocations underlined and 
the missing part bolded). 
 
All parts of the tests were typed.  There were instructions in Greek for 
each part of the test. 
 
The types of grammatical and lexical collocations tested in the elicited 
translation and the blank-filling tasks for each group are given below in Table 
10.