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Oxford Collocation Dictionary (PDF)

Monday, November 14, 2011 22:26

Oxford Collocation Dictionary (PDF) download Knowing the company a word keeps can be as easy as ABC.   A: Install a PDF reader (such as Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, etc.) on your computer. B: Open the PDF file provided in this...

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Lexical/Grammatical Collocations: Patterns and Examples

Monday, November 14, 2011 22:18

  Benson, Benson, and Ilson (1986) categorized English collocations into two classes: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations (with 7 and 8 types respectively); lexical collocations are made up only of verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs in different possible combinations while grammatical...

Do-Did-Done (Irregular Verbs Made Easy)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 22:51

DO – DID – DONE — This is not an ordinary table in alphabetical order; here, as far as the sounds and patterns of verb sets are concerned, the three forms of irregular verbs are systematically sorted/presented; thus, they have...

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ACTIVE AND PASSIVE

Saturday, February 20, 2010 20:39

In English Grammar, sometimes the doer of the action is not mentioned. This happens simply because: the action, and not the doer/actor of the action, is important....

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“Short Story” Defined and Delineated

Thursday, January 14, 2010 22:55

Short stories tend to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as ... novels. The short story evolved as a miniature, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of...

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Verb + Preposition Combinations (#2)

Sunday, January 10, 2010 23:02

In this article you will learn "Verb + Preposition Combinations" such as: Verbs + From,Verbs + In, Verbs + Of,Verbs + On,Verbs + To,Verbs + With,...

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Verb + Preposition Combinations (Part 1)

Sunday, December 20, 2009 23:38

Verb + Preposition Combinations: Verbs + About; Verbs + Against; Verbs + At; Verbs + For; Verbs + From; Verbs + In; Verbs + Of; Verbs + On; Verbs + To; Verbs + With...

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American Idioms & Proverbs

Friday, November 13, 2009 0:18

Idiom is an expression which has the meaning that is not obvious from the individual words. Read more about what idioms are. Here we have provide you the most common and frequent American idioms which are used in everyone's daily speaking....

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Active and Passive (Chart)

Friday, October 16, 2009 22:02

Here, we have provided you the most complete chart which contains all the English tenses with their passive forms and the structure of tenses with examples and the usage of them....

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