Thank you!, Pablo
On 14 dic, 01:34, "anurag barthwal" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pablo, > I'll help you post your links here : > > I. An interesting language topic :http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/easy/colloc.htm > > II. "Some few months ago I started to work on activities to boost my > vocabulary. The first tip that I found is to work on phrases instead of > individual words (in a context). Other tip that I found is to work around > groups of words (words association), something like this: > > http://www.learnenglish.de/ImproveEnglish/notebookpage.htm > > I find 'collocations' very interesting. I mean, the idea is to get a good > book about the subject and to study around 'family of words', perhaps > "English Collocations in Use" of Cambridge? > > I mean, I think the better way to learn grammar, vocabulary, prepositions, > etc. is in a context but this approach can be a good complement. " > > III. A dictionary of collocations (for dictionary lovers; don't miss the > sample pages): > > http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/0-19-431243-7?cc=global > > A corpus to see how words are used: > > http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/index.xml > > A tip: in this case is useful to use Firefox to highlight all the ocurrences > of the searched word, like this: > > Step 1. Press Ctrl-F. > Step 2. Write the searched word in the corresponding text box. > > Step 3. Clic on "Highlight All". > > Another one: > > http://www.collins.co.uk/corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx > > I like the most BNC (the first one) because it gives results at random. If > you refresh the results page you can get more occurrences :) > > And here a quote of a 'conclusion': > > "Real communication comprises a lot of collocations or fixed phrases that > are supposedly more than single words. In order for learners to improve > fluency, they need to focus on these word combinations in addition to—and > sometimes instead of—single words." > > You can read the complete conclusion and paper here: > > http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2003/10/kato > > IV. Some examples of use of the previous link service: > > 1. To know what verbs can be used with the word 'opinion', use the option V > obj N* > > Among the results who get: > > - deliver opinion (13) > - express opinion (218) > - express opinion on (8) > - form opinion (83) > - give opinion (126) > - give opinion on (11), etcetera > > and at this point you simply click on any of the results to see the phrases > that include the wanted words (to see them in a context) > > 2. To know what adjectives are acceptable for the word "mystery", use the > option ADJ N* > > 3. To know what preposition can be used with the verb "arrive", use the > option V* PREP. The results: > > - arrive at (3605) > - arrive in (2577) > - arrive before (106) > - arrive on (789) > - arrive after (149) > - arrive via (16) > > and what about "arrive to"? It's wrong! It's a mistake to use 'arrive to', > isn't it? > > Well, here the American English Corpus: > > http://www.americancorpus.org/ > > The important thing about this one and the BNC one, is that the corpus are > recent, I mean, contemporary. Here the wikipedia links: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_of_Contemporary_American_English > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Corpus > > Thanks, > > Pablo" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
