A collocation is the way in which words are combined with one another. To move from a receptive to a productive vocabulary, students of English need to learn a wide variety of ways that words collocate with each other.

For example, please review these "Heavy Collocations" or phrases commonly associated with the adjective "heavy."

heavy duty
heavy heart
heavy meal
heavy weight
heavy breathing
heavy eyelids
heavy feet
heavy handed
heavy snowfall
heavy artillery
heavy thinker
heavy dose
heavy industry
heavy blow
heavy work
heavy depression
heavy sleeper
heavy trading

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