**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** An excellent reference for collocations is "The Word Finder" by J.I. Rodale - published by Rodale Books, Inc. Emmaus, Pensylvania. The only drawback is that the copyright is 1947 although it has be reprinted many times. It has a companion volume called "The Synonym Finder" which is similar to a thesaurus. These tools are excellent for writing precisely. I suppose that today you can get these things on CD Rom but I prefer paper dictionaries and reference books. (And regular library card catalogues that no longer exist.) Michele --Thanks to Miriam Schlessinger, my translation teacher, for pointing out the various permutations of a dictionary that exisit! Iris Elish wrote: > **** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** > > Hi All, > > I can still remember a few years back on a visit to New York when I asked > the salesman at the largest bookstore in the city for a book on > collocations. " What?" he asked me. His query didn't result of not > understanding my South African accent, but because the subject of > collocations had not yet reached America for some reason. > > I really recommend reading the article on collocations at the following > address: > http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/vocabulary/collocation1.shtml > It is really worth our attention. > > All the best > Iris > > ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### > ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx ##### ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####