I tend to
label a lot of vocabulary errors as issues of COLLOCATION. An
introduction to collocations will be included in the early stages of all the
courses I teach on, but my basic example is always that in English (an many
other languages, so I’m told), a combination like “ride a bicycle” is a good
collocation, and “drive a bicycle” is not.
In academic writing, I often find myself correcting “bad” collocations
like “make a research” (it should be something like DO or CONDUCT RESEARCH)
In order to correct COLLOCATION errors by yourself, here are some online resources for you to explore. Let me know if you have any questions about how to use / access any of the sites, and tell me also if you have any particular requests regarding online resources.
In order to correct COLLOCATION errors by yourself, here are some online resources for you to explore. Let me know if you have any questions about how to use / access any of the sites, and tell me also if you have any particular requests regarding online resources.
cambridge dictionaries online
longman online dictionary
macmillan online dictionary
oxford dictionary (and the less legal oxford collocations dictionaryhttp://5yiso.appspot.com/)
Corpora and Concordancers
collins concordance and collocations sampler
mark davies' british national corpus search
a huge but fairly anonymous concordancing site
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