Collocation is considered as one of the most problematic areas for foreign language learning It is often seen as a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the attainment of native like fluency. The following study takes an approach as a linguistic one by analyzing syntactic features of the English collocations with ‘make’, which is widely used in the international criminal documents. The study narrows down to the syntactic features according to the categorization of the English collocations with ‘make’ used in the international criminal documents with the aim at finding out the difficulties for learners and lecturers in dealing with these collocations as well as imposing the suggestions for these difficulties.

collocation, linguistics, semantic, approach, criminal documents