Compiled by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. 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… read more
Speak and write perfect English! The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations tells you which words go together in English and which words do not.The BBI will help you master the difficulties of common but unpredictable English phrases and word combinations.The BBI shows key differences between… read more
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more
[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British… read more
This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more