ENGLISH VERB LEXICAL COLLOCATION

Abstract

The problems of this research are what other word classes collocate with English verb, and what combinations of English verb lexical collocation? These are the first time that the researcher found in this research. The aims are to describe the word classes that collocate with verb and to describe verb lexical collocation combination This research uses a qualitative descriptive method, because all of the data that are analyzed in this research are in the form of words and sentences not numbers. Besides this research is also descriptive research, because it involves the collecting data in order to answer research questions concerning the current status of the subject of the study. Based on the result, the researcher tries to find that noun (concrete and abstract) can collocate transitive verb and adverb can collocate both transitive and intransitive verb