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

This excellent dictionary fills a gap which even the best ordinary dictionaries hardly even try to fill: what prepositions to use with nouns and verbs; and when two or more can be used, what are the differences in meaning. Strongly recommended.

Although one can look almost anything up online these days, it is practical to have a list of suitable collocations to hand. I find that I often end up using a word I did not initially think of myself, after having read it here whilst wanting to confirm another collocation.

it is a very useful book very good purchase I'm using it very often I thing that everyone should look it up

Good dictionary and price. I recommend the seller.

Useful for teachers and translators. The only complaint - could be more comprehensive, but still the best available in the market in my opinion.

This is a wonderful tool for the advanced learner of English as a foreign language, and probably occasionally for the native speakers too. A perfect complement to dictionaries (the user must already know the meaning of the words they want to look up in BBI dictionary), it provides information on HOW TO USE the words correctly (right preposition, sentence structure, collocations, etc). Many examples are included in the entries for extra clarity. Abbreviations indicate the language register (formal, colloquial, etc)or that a word is used differently in British English (=BE) and American English (AE). Here are three examples : "rendition" n. 1. to give a ~ 2. a letter-perfect (AE), word-perfect (BE)~ "norm" n. 1. ["standard"] 1. to establish, set a ~ 2. to deviate from the ~ ["average"] 3. above; below the ~ "cruel" adj. 1. ~ to, towards (~ to animals) 2. . ~ to + inf. (it was cruel of him to say that) An excellent reference book.

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Perfect assistant !

I have treasured the BBI dictionary of American and British English since the first edition (1986). There is a sense of care throughout, as though the authors are concerned, first, that the reader become able to use the word in context as a native English speaker would. Words do not stand alone. The BBI dictionary is designed to help with collocations, those additional words that are needed to express certain senses. For some headwords, a brief phrase is given defining the sense of the headword, such as "soil", "ground" for land. Within each headword, each numbered entry presents (a defining phrase if needed and) a typical use consisting of the headword and a few words around it. When the typical use needs explanation, a more extended example is given. BE or AE is indicated when the use occurs only in British English or American English, or when a different use needs to be stated. I bought the third edition (2009) for use in editing poetry and non-fiction, where words gain power when they are properly combined. The third edition improves upon the first. The numbered entries have been more carefully divided. The typical uses have been slightly expanded, for example to show a typical object or infinitive that wasn't mentioned before. The third edition smiles at the reader more broadly and caringly than the first, as though in the 23 years since the first, it has grown wiser about the world, and about helping people write English.

Non basta sapere come una parola viene tradotta inun'altra lingua, bisogna anche conoscere la costellazioni di altre parole entro le quali quel termine si muove, crando continuamente espressioni nuove, non necessariamente parallele all'italiano.

Ab einem gewissen Niveau möchte der Nicht-Muttersprachler über das reine Fehler-Vermeiden hinaus einfach gutes, verständliches und stilistisch schönes Englisch sprechen und vor allem schreiben. Hierbei hilft das BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English in nunmehr der dritten erweiterten und überarbeiteten Auflage. Das Werk befasst sich mit den korrekten bzw. üblichen Wortkombinationen im Englischen. Am besten lässt sich alles an einem Beispiel erklären; hier der Eintrag zu "ineffective": zunächst wird unterschieden zwischen "ineffective against", "ineffective in" und "ineffective (for so) to" samt Beispielsatz, eine Erklärung ist nicht nötig. Schön, dass zwei Einträge weiter gleich auf "inefficient" verwiesen wird und der Unterschied deutlich ins Auge fällt. D.h. aber auch, dass sich das Werk nicht an Anfänger wendet, sondern an durchaus fortgeschrittene Lerner. Wer Freude am Finetuning seiner ohnehin schon guten Englischkenntnisse hat, wird von dem Buch im Alltag gerne und viel profitieren können. Einen Stern Abzug für den nicht so gelungenen Grammatikteil. Seine Struktur hat sich mir nicht ohne weiteres erschlossen.