Advanced English Collocations: Big

What Collocates with 'Big'?

The word 'big' may create a lot of trouble for non-native speakers of English. Mistakes might be made in two ways:
- the word 'big' is used with the nouns it doesn't go with;
- unsuitable words are used where the word big would be most appropriate.

Here is a list of words that can't go together with 'big' and require other adjectives to express a large degree or amount :

 NO 'BIG' FOR

VARIETY

RANGE

IMPORTANCE

PERCENTEGE

EXPERIENCE

PROGRESS

AMOUNT

NOISE

TRAFFIC

Here you can find an infographic to illustrate this.

Here are some of the most frequent collocates for the word 'big':

'BIG' GOES WITH

DEAL

DIFFERENCE

PROBLEM

QUESTIONS

PART

PICTURE

THING

TIME

DAY

MONEY

GAME

STORY

MISTAKE 

TROUBLE

NEWS

And here is an infographics I've made to illustrate this: