Good afternoon, everyone!
This is my first post here, I hope you can help me.
I'm taking the TKT Exam next Saturday and have been taking some sample tests in order to practice.
In the last sample test I took, there was a question like this:
Choose the example which matches the term:
a collocation
(a) very nice
(b) fresh news
(c) quickly spoken
I marked (b), the correct answer is (a).
However, I found some examples of "fresh news" in a reliable source: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
There's even a website whose name is freshnews.com!
Could you help me here?
Thanks in advance.
Is "fresh news" an acceptable collocation?
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Re: Is "fresh news" an acceptable collocation?
I don't know about byu.edu but in my book news must by definition be fresh. The term "fresh news" is therefore tautological, not collocative :)
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Re: Is "fresh news" an acceptable collocation?
Well, this makes a lot of sense...
Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks a lot! :)