. 17 In sports language, in Athletics we can say, “clear the bar, pass the ball” but not “*pass the bar, clear the ball” in English, we can understand to translate exactly in Vietnamese “vượt. teachers and students at DSPEU PURPOSES OF THE STUDY - To study lexical and grammatical collocation in the language of sports - To analyze, synthesize, and illustrate the collocations types in the. patterns of sports behavior of different individuals and groups. We have found that learning to analyze and interpret the collocation of words in the language of sports is not an easy task for...