Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English  (English, Mixed media product, unknown)

Oxford Collocations Dictionary For Students Of English (With CD-Rom) is a comprehensive compendium of commonly used collocations in the English language.

Summary Of The Book

In this edition of Oxford Collocations Dictionary For Students Of English, the authors have brought together an extensive collection of collocations, along with instructions on the common usage of words in the English language. With nearly 250,000 collocations and 75,000 examples of usage, the dictionary is an ideal reference guide for English students. It primarily focuses on demonstrating commonly used combinations of words in both British as well as American English, and is based on the Oxford English Corpus, which contains over 2 billion collocations.

The words are segregated according to the part of speech that they are used in, clearly distinguishing between collocations from British and American English. Adequate examples have been given to help students understand the usage better. It is accompanied by a CD which also contains the complete dictionary, with the added advantage of an easily searchable index. The CD also provides spoken pronunciation of the collocations and a number of practice exercises. The book has a 16-page study section, and to make searching easy, all the headwords are colored in blue.