English Collocations on CD-Rom (Collins Cobuild)

· Fast, simple, and easy to use
· 10,000 headwords – the core vocabulary of English
· 140,000 collocations
· 2,600,000 real examples
· Up to 20 collocates for each headword
· Includes frequencies and statistical data on all collocations

This CD-ROM contains data extracted from The Bank of English and is based on a 170 million word corpus. It helps users with fixed phrases, natural phrases, natural phraseology, idioms, clichés, and specialized forms. If you double click with the mouse on an example you will see extended context and the genre of text in which the collocation occurs. You can copy and paste examples via the Window Clipboard or save to file for future references, use in the classroom, vocabulary, ect.