The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson
Format
Paperback
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Country
NL
Published
19 March 2010
Pages
462
ISBN
9789027232618

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson

Speak and write perfect English!

BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say

mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly ).
BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say I
want you to go = What I want is for you to go ).
So BBI helps you with both vocabulary and grammar.

BBI shows you important vocabulary and grammatical differences between American and British English.

BBI gives you plenty of examples that can serve as models for your own use of English.

Some of these examples are authentic quotations from works of American and British literature.

This Third Edition of the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English is an expanded and updated version of the First Edition (1986) and its Revised Edition (1997), both of which were favorably received. In this third edition, the contents of the BBI have been increased by over 20%. In the selection and presentation of new material, many sources have been used, including:

Internet searches;

The British National Corpus;

Reading and listening to English-language material;

For Grammatical Patterns:
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Randolph Quirck et al.);
For Collocations: Lists of Lexical Functions (compiled by Igor Mel'cuk et al.).

The BBI has been highly recommended by the English-Speaking Union. Using the BBI: A workbook with exercises is now available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.bbi.workbook

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