Synopses & Reviews
The new edition of the Collins COBUILD Learner's Dictionary offers detailed coverage of today's language and additional information on grammar, frequency, usage and pragmatics, making it ideally suited to learners of English. A complete reference tool, this corpus-based learner's dictionary provides invaluable guidance to students wishing to study English at this level.
Synopsis
The Collins Cobuild line was developed specifically to meet the needs of ESL learners. The series includes a comprehensive range of dictionaries, grammar resources and usage books featuring real English as it is written and spoken today.
About the Author
Through a collaborative initiative, Collins COBUILD and Heinle are co-publishing a dynamic new line of learner's dictionaries offering unparalleled pedagogy and learners' resources. The first Collins COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, thanks in part to John Sinclair, one of the very first modern corpus linguists who personally oversaw the creation of the Bank of English. Every COBUILD dictionary is based on the Bank of English, a huge electronic database of both written and spoken language, which today contains over 650 million words.
Table of Contents
GRAMMAR NOTATIONS. INTRODUCTION. GUIDE TO THE DICTIONARY ENTRIES. GRAMMAR. DICTIONARY A-Z. ILLUSTRATIONS. A. Human Body. B. Clothes. C. House and Flat. D. Car and Bicycle. E. Tools. F. Kitchen Utensils. G. Insects. H. Animals. I. Fruit. J. Vegetables. K. Musical Instruments. L. Shapes. GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. COMPASS POINTS. NUMBERS. DATES. TIME. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. FREQUENCY LIST OF WORKDS IN THE DICTIONARY. PRONUNCIATION.