English Collocations in Use: Advanced: Book with answers (Vocabulary in Use)

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This book presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts and is ideal for intermediate level students and above who want to take their English to the next level. Collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs or which verbs and nouns are used together. Lest students think there are no exceptions to the pattern about the concept space, they are alerted that it’s okay to say waste of space, but not waste of room. Increase your knowledge of collocations and how to use them, with easy to understand explanations and practice exercises.

Collocations are similar to idiomatic expressions - when you use them you sound more fluent and natural. Since the 1980s he has worked with computerised corpora, investigating the vocabulary and grammar of present-day English, with a focus on everyday spoken language.You need this book if you are serious about taking your "nearly-fluent" English to the mastery level. The reader will usually find examples of collocations in typical contexts with, where appropriate, any special notes about their meaning and their usage. At the end of the book, there’s an exercise key and an index listing all the collocations presented and where each can be found. He is co-author of the 2 latest successful corpus-informed publications by Cambridge University Press: Touchstone and Cambridge Grammar of English.

Libro consigliatissimo , ma da abbinare sicuramente ad altri testi che trattino non solo le collocazioni, ma la grammatica, gli idiomi, il vocabolario etc, etc. You have to learn it on your own by reading a lot, interacting with native speakers or through a book like this one. A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English. This application is developed to help you learn common English collocations and how to use them in sentences.I like the way that the chapters are arranged, particularly the collocations that are in topic areas. The books have been revised and updated for this second edition, and two units per level have been added.