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

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.

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!

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.

This is a very good resource for English learner. Strongly recommend it.

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.

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

Useful for working with my students who are struggling with English.

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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Libro perfetto. Eccellenti condizioni.

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.

Perfect assistant !

I still have to meet an advanced learner and even a native speaker of the English language who never feels the need, in their everyday writing, to check some of the word combinations made available to them by common usage and idiomatic English. Does it mean that the BBI is complete? By far no! But no such dictionary can be complete, and none other has proven as exhaustive and as indispensable as the BBI. How far and how often you can deviate from the BBI in literary writing and creation will depend on the strength of your creativity and the depth of your feel for the language. No matter what you write and for whom, it will show if you did not first look up the BBI. The third edition fills most of the gaps, if not all of them, left in the second edition: it is definitely a must-have for whoever writes, edits or translates.