Monday, June 29, 2009
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Collocation Blog
What are collocations?
Why should I study them?
Words often appear to gether in "chunks". Without knowing that the words are meant to be read together as a "chunk" it makes it difficult to understand a sentence.
For example;
It is an uphill battle for students to learn collocations.
What are the key nouns? battle, collocations
What nouns appear with other words in a chunk? uphill battle
What does each word mean? uphill=going up a hill, battle=a big fight
What do they mean together? uphill battle=a very difficult or challenging fight
This blog, Collocation of the Week, teaches you lots of new collocations that might be useful for.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Describe it to me...
Do you often know what you want to say but can't find the right word? This is the perfect website for you.
The OneLook Reverse Dictionary lets you describe what you are looking for and then it will give you words that match your description. Remember to click on the words that you find to see if they mean what you want to say.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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