COMBINATORY DICTIONARY.

An older edition of the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English is available online; as the introduction says:

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English gives essential grammatical and lexical recurrent word combinations, often called collocations; when necessary, it provides definitions, paraphrases, and Usage Notes….
Much of the material provided in this Dictionary has never before been published. This material is of vital importance to those learners of English who are native speakers of other languages. Heretofore, they have had no source that would consistently indicate, for example, which verbs are used with which nouns; they could not find in any existing dictionary such collocations as call an alert, lay down a barrage, hatch a conspiracy, impose an embargo, roll a hoop, draw up a list, administer an oath, enter (make) a plea, crack a smile, punch a time clock, inflict a wound, etc. This Dictionary provides such collocations; in order to enable the user of the Dictionary to find them quickly and easily, they are given in the entries for the nouns.

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Comments

  1. i am aniranian M.A.student majoring in TEFL.therefore,i searching for collocations in english.i would appreciate providing me with English collocations and any other contribution
    that would help me in completing my thesis.
    scincierely
    yours
    hzsalimi

  2. I am very interested in adjectival collocations

  3. i have a copy of old version of bbi dictionary(book).who has the new version of this book(electronical book)?

  4. i have a copy of old version of bbi dictionary(book).who has the new version of this book(electronical book)?

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