Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English - A collocations dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English. Collocations- common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or 'talk freely' - are the essential building blocks of natural-sounding English. The dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly 9,000 headwords. Level: Upper-Intermediate to Advanced SMALLER VERSION CONVERTED to PDF by arcadius
Software to help students write fluent, natural-sounding English. Includes the Oxford Collocations Dictionary for learners of English, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and the Oxford Collocations Exercise Bank. Point at a word in a document to instantly see typical words that combine with it. Look up their meanings in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary by clicking on them. Listen to the pronunciation in British and American English!
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This dictionary presents a complete listing of the collocations in the
Brown Corpus, which is the standard American corpus containing one
million words of text from many different genres dating from 1961.
Collocations, as defined by the author, are recurring sequences of
grammatically well-formed items. They make up the building blocks of
the native speaker's mental lexicon and hence are an essential element
of linguistic competence. Examples of collocations are: at the outset,
could be expected to, not significantly different from, peaceful
coexistence, powdered coffee, and with great difficulty. The dictionary
lists some 85,000 collocational types; for each collocation there are
statistics showing its frequency, distribution, and degree of
prominence. It will be an invaluable reference source for researchers
in linguistics, English-language teaching, lexicography, stylistics,
and automatic language analysis.
Software to help students write fluent, natural-sounding English. Includes the Oxford Collocations Dictionary for learners of English, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and the Oxford Collocations Exercise Bank. Point at a word in a document to instantly see typical words that combine with it. Look up their meanings in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary by clicking on them. Listen to the pronunciation in British and American English!
