Abstract—English writing skill has always been the weak
point of Chinese EFL learners, how to improve English writing
skill is the focus of the education circle. In addition, the
appropriate use of verb can polish the writing paper.
Furthermore, the frequently-adopted delexical verbs play an
important role in the English sentence structure. The
collocation patterns of delexical verbs deserve us put more
attention. Through the analysis of the CLEC corpora, this
paper found the main features of the incorrect use of the
delexical verbs and investigated the reason as well as provide
some pedagogical implications.
Index Terms—Delexical verbs; corpora; collocation.
The authors are with Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
(e-mail: 1036325465@qq.com, 1762718221@qq.com).
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Cite:Chen Liang and Junhong Dong, "An Error Analysis of Collocation Patterns of Delexical Verbs in Chinese EFL Earners’ Writing," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 27-30, 2022.