Lexical/Grammatical Collocations: Patterns and Examples
Benson, Benson, and Ilson (1986) categorized English
collocations into two classes: lexical collocations and
grammatical collocations (with 7 and 8 types respectively);
lexical collocations are made up only of verbs, adjectives,
nouns and adverbs in different possible combinations while
grammatical collocations contain words such as verbs, adjectives
or nouns combined with a preposition or a grammatical structure.
A table of collocations (alongside 37 patterns) categorized
based on their study follows:     V + N/P (or prepositional
phrase) compose music; set an alarm V + Adv walk heavily; argue
heatedly V + N make a decision; take place/part Adj + N
strong/weak tea N + V bombs explode; alarms go off N1 + of + N2
a pride of lions; a bunch of keys Adv + Adj quite safe; deeply
absorbed N + Prep ability in/at; kind of; changes in N + to +
Inf an attempt to do it; years to come N + that-clause He took
an oath that he would do his duty.We reach an agreement