English Grammatical Collocation: Restricted to Prepositions at, for, in, and on. Research

Abstract

The aims of this research are English to describe the dominant words which collocate with prepositions at, for, in and on, to describe the types of grammatical collocations in English, to describe the most frequent combinations of grammatical collocation, to describe the meaning of grammatical collocations in English. The source of the data is Oxford collocation dictionary, Agatha Christie’s novel “The Man in the Brown Suit” and internet provider. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The results show that there are 4 main categories and 6 sub-categories. The categories are; 1) noun + preposition (countable noun + preposition and uncountable noun + preposition), 2) preposition + noun (preposition + abstract noun and preposition + concrete noun), 3) adjective + noun (descriptive adjective + preposition and derivational adjective + preposition) and 4) verb + preposition. The most frequent combination of English grammatical collocation is preposition + noun (G4) with 67 (33, 5%) of the whole data, meanwhile, 62 (31 %) data is in the pattern of noun + preposition (G1) then, adjective+ preposition (G5) with 51 (25,5%) and the last is verb + preposition (G8) with 20 data (10%) data. All of the collocations in this research have grammatical meaning.