"Colligation" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Colligation refers to the grammatical structure or organization of a sentence or clause, including the relationships between its components, such as nouns and verbs, and the way these components are connected by words like prepositions, conjunctions, and articles. It encompasses the speaker's or writer's choices about the sentence's syntactic and semantic organization, such as the use of active or passive voice, sentence length, and the inclusion of subordinate clauses.
Collieries refer to a collection of coal mines, especially those that are operated by a single company or organization. The term "colliery" is an archaic or poetic way of referring to a coal mine, and the plural form "collieries" is often used to describe a group of mines that are part of a larger industrial complex.