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Help with collocations



newuser07
Argentina

Help with collocations
 
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      





volga
United States

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!

15 Feb 2010     



newuser07
Argentina

Thanks a lot for your help!!!! :)

15 Feb 2010     



lshorton99
China

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?

16 Feb 2010     



colibrita
United Kingdom

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






16 Feb 2010     



Jayho
Australia

It �s here Lindsey: http://www.visuwords.com/?word=learn

28 May 2011