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

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. He holds/has held Visiting and Adjunct Professorships at the University of Limerick, Ireland, Newcastle University, UK, and Penn State University, USA. Collocations are similar to idiomatic expressions - when you use them you sound more fluent and natural.

Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The English Collocation in Use books, available in two levels, provide explanations and practice of English collocations for intermediate (B1-B2) and advanced (C1-C2) learners of English. We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else previously.

Using collocations will improve your style of written and spoken English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in examinations such as Cambridge FCE, CAE, CPE and IELTS. However, to do this effectively it’s best to have first assimilated the standard language patterns presented in this book, all of which were selected from those identified as significant by the CANCODE corpus of spoken English. For highly motivated students it would be very useful, but I would say that for the majority it's a book to dip in to now and again. Learn collocations in context, with lots of different topics, including 'Using the Internet' and 'Presentations'.Practice exercises on the right-hand page check whether learners have understood the information on the left-hand page. Then, setting the bar higher, the authors focused on those collocations not so readily produced by even advanced learners.