Table 7 Overall phraseological units extracted from IELTS task 2 writing essays
Frequency | Percentage | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Anomalous collocation | Ill-formed collocations | 86 | 8.22% |
Cranberry collocations | 9 | 0.86% | |
Defective collocations | 29 | 2.77% | |
Phraseological collocations | 182 | 17.41% | |
Restricted collocations | Lexical collocations | 302 | 28.89% |
Grammatical collocations | 54 | 5.16% | |
Formulae | Simple formulae | 329 | 31.48% |
Sayings | 1 | 0.09% | |
Proverbs | 1 | 0.09% | |
Similes | - | - | |
Metaphors | Transparent metaphors | 32 | 3.06% |
Semi-transparent metaphors | 4 | 0.38% | |
Opaque metaphors | 11 | 1.05% | |
Free combinations | 6 | 0.57% | |
Total | 1,046 | 100% |