A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in advanced level examinations such as Cambridge CAE, CPE and IELTS. Practice exercises on the right-hand page check whether learners have understood the information on the left-hand page.

Be better prepared for English exams such as IELTS and Cambridge English: First, Advanced and Proficiency, which often test knowledge of collocations. At the end of the book, there’s an exercise key and an index listing all the collocations presented and where each can be found. This book is also perfect for preparing for Cambridge exams and IELTS, which often test knowledge of collocations. Then, setting the bar higher, the authors focused on those collocations not so readily produced by even advanced learners.Since the 1980s he has worked with computerised corpora, investigating the vocabulary and grammar of present-day English, with a focus on everyday spoken language. Collocations are similar to idiomatic expressions - when you use them you sound more fluent and natural. I thoroughly recommend this book for foreign students who want to improve their English on an advanced level. Learning collocations increases the range of one’s English vocabulary, so as to avoid or go beyond words like very or nice by choosing a word that fits the context better and has a more precise meaning. A few examples of collocations from the book include: "Long standing tradition", "broach the subject" , "glimmer of hope" and "drum up support".

At first the authors decided to choose collocations from everyday written and spoken English; for example in the unit “Health and Medicine” we find Shake off a cold and respond well to treatment but not grumbling appendix, which is a strong collocation, that is, one in which the words are very closely associated with each other. 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.This book presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts and is ideal for intermediate level students and above who want to take their English to the next level. The books have been revised and updated for this second edition, and two units per level have been added. expert on the teaching and learning of vocabulary, he is a co-author of the basic and upper-intermediate levels of Vocabulary in Use, and is also Academic Consultant to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. This application is developed to help you learn common English collocations and how to use them in sentences. Collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs or which verbs and nouns are used together.