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Help with collocations

newuser07
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Help with collocations
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Hi Dear Friends,
Is there any website where I can get collocations for a word.
For example. I would like to know the most common verbs for meeting and objectives (eg. set).
I�ve been googling for over an hour but I haven�t been able to find anything similar to this. Sometime ago somebody mentioned a sort of corpus I think...
It would help me a lot!
Thanks in advance.
Have a great week :) |
15 Feb 2010
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volga
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I checked the on-line Corpus of Contemporary American English and the most frequent verbs that go with meeting are hold, arrange, attend, and cancel; and with objectives - accomplish, achieve, fulfill.
The link to this corpus: http://www.americancorpus.org/
Cheers!
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15 Feb 2010
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newuser07
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Thanks a lot for your help!!!! :) |
15 Feb 2010
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lshorton99
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There �s a website, but I can �t for the life of me remember it �s name, where you type a word in and it creates a word cloud of collocations - you can then click on another word in that clud and it will show you more. Anyone know the site?
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16 Feb 2010
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colibrita
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I got these from my Collocations book (Oxford).
lshorton99 - would love to know what that site �s called. Hope the name comes back to you!
..... a meeting
Have, hold, / arrange, call, convene, organize, schedule, summon
Attend / Open, close, / adjourn, break up / call off, cancel / postpone / host, chair, conduct, preside over
an objective
accomplish, achieve, attain, fulfil, meet, reach, satisfy, succeed in / fail in / agree, define, establish, formulate, identify, set, specify /declare, state / promote, pursue
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16 Feb 2010
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