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Collocation

Hello everyone,
English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties particularly in collocations.
Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit. Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation? Thank you.
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[nq:1]Hello everyone, English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties particularly in collocations. Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit. Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation?

  • [nq:1]Hello everyone, English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties particularly in collocations.
  • Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit.
  • Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation?
  • [/nq] Well there is The Oxford Collocation Dictionary For Students Of English and Cambridge University Press's English Collocations In Use .
  • I haven't read either of them so cannot vouch for their quality.
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[nq:1]Hello everyone, English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties particularly in collocations. Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit. Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation? Thank you.[/nq]
Well there is The Oxford Collocation Dictionary For Students Of English and Cambridge University Press's English Collocations In Use . I ha
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[nq:1]English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties particularly in collocations. Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit. Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation?[/nq]
Google finds 163,000 hits on the string "collocations dictionary online". Maybe one of them would be what you want.
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Read a good book or a good newspaper and you will sort them out eventually. I had to look up the word "Collocation". Never heard it before. I'm totally familiar with the problem however.

Examples.
Baggage and luggage mean the same, except you leave your bags in "Left luggage", not left baggage, and people have "emotional baggage" not emotional luggage.
You will find that the words

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