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The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. 3rd Edition

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  • BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say “mortgagedto 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 is for you to go”).
  • So BBI helps you with both vocabulary and grammar.
  • BBI shows you important vocabulary and grammatical differences between American and British English.
  • BBI gives you plenty of examples that can serve as models for your own use of English.
  • Some of these examples are authentic quotations from works of American and British literature.

This Third Edition of the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English is an expanded and updated version of the First Edition (1986) and its Revised Edition (1997), both of which were favorably received. In this third edition, the contents of the BBI have been increased by over 20%.

In the selection and presentation of new material, many sources have been used, including:

  • Internet searches;
  • The British National Corpus;
  • Reading and listening to English-language material;
  • For Grammatical Patterns: A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Randolph Quirck et al.);
  • For Collocations: Lists of Lexical Functions (compiled by Igor Mel’cuk et al.).

The BBI has been “highly recommended” by the English-Speaking Union.

Using the BBI: A workbook with exercises is now available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.bbi.workbook

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Benjamins Publishing Company; 3rd edition (March 19, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 504 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 902723261X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9027232618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.43 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2022
    I have treasured the BBI dictionary of American and British English since the first edition (1986). There is a sense of care throughout, as though the authors are concerned, first, that the reader become able to use the word in context as a native English speaker would.
    Words do not stand alone. The BBI dictionary is designed to help with collocations, those additional words that are needed to express certain senses. For some headwords, a brief phrase is given defining the sense of the headword, such as "soil", "ground" for land. Within each headword, each numbered entry presents (a defining phrase if needed and) a typical use consisting of the headword and a few words around it. When the typical use needs explanation, a more extended example is given. BE or AE is indicated when the use occurs only in British English or American English, or when a different use needs to be stated.
    I bought the third edition (2009) for use in editing poetry and non-fiction, where words gain power when they are properly combined. The third edition improves upon the first. The numbered entries have been more carefully divided. The typical uses have been slightly expanded, for example to show a typical object or infinitive that wasn't mentioned before.
    The third edition smiles at the reader more broadly and caringly than the first, as though in the 23 years since the first, it has grown wiser about the world, and about helping people write English.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2017
    As a translator, it is essential for my work. I consult it like a hundred times a day! One of my translation teachers at NYU, who was the editor for the NY Circle of Translators recommended it, and I have not regretted buying it!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2012
    This book is so useful for correctly combining the phrases and making use of the right words in one's writing and speech. I had the old edition of it which was good too, but this version is of course much better and up to date.
    Love it, use it all the time.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018
    This is a very good resource for English learner. Strongly recommend it.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013
    IMy daugther needed a kind of dictionary like this, I found thru Amazon, and it's absolutly perfect for her studies.
    I recommend it to those who study English as traslators.
    Gloria
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011
    Since I am a translator, the dictionary is very helpful and we can find in it many other meanings for the same term/word.
    When we read the context of the sentence, we find some other meanings that we have not thought about, and we can go to the language dictionary we are translating and find the "almost" perfect translation for the term.

    This dictionary was suggested by the ATA-American Translators Association, on their monthly newsletter, where it had a good review.

    Very helpful and easy to use.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015
    Useful for working with my students who are struggling with English.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2013
    I chose it because its a useful tool for my job as a tranaslator. I recomend it for all english learners.

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    Reviewed in Spain on October 14, 2022
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    Reviewed in Spain on October 14, 2022
    Libro de Consulta y aprendizaje, también válido como lectura esporádica para aprender la combinación de palabras más natural en cada caso
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    Reviewed in Italy on January 6, 2021
    Libro perfetto. Eccellenti condizioni.
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    Reviewed in Japan on October 13, 2024
    コロケーション辞典には洋書、和書色々とあるが洋書で比較的、扱いやすいサイズとページ数のものがこれだろう。この本に載っているものが基本的に理解しておくべき情報だと思う。
  • C. Curdt Christiansen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, concise and to the point
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2017
    This excellent dictionary fills a gap which even the best ordinary dictionaries hardly even try to fill: what prepositions to use with nouns and verbs; and when two or more can be used, what are the differences in meaning. Strongly recommended.
  • takuspb
    5.0 out of 5 stars I was long time hunting for this very edition...
    Reviewed in India on January 8, 2017
    Perfect assistant !