The article is devoted to the manifestation, formation, ways of mastering and theoretical basis of free word combinations in English as a free field in the science of linguistics. One of the main communicative goals of foreign language acquisition and its teaching in higher education institution is to adopt the regularities of such word combinations and to instill lexical speaking habits to learners. Mastering the norms of combining words in linguistics with each other is of great importance and one of the most important and difficult factors in learning different foreign languages. Keywords: word combinations, syntax, free and fixed combinations, disobedience and subordination connections