Collins COBUILD Resource Pack comes with Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus, Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage, Collins COBUILD English Grammar and Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms.
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers detailed treatment of today's language. Based on the evidence from the Bank of English corpus, which now contains over 524 million words, contains the most important new words and meanings which have come into the language over the past two years, as well as thousands of new, updated examples, taken directly from the corpus.
Not just a dictionary this is what is included:
- Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (4th and edition published in 2003)
- Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
- Collins COBUILD English Grammar
- Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus
- Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
- over 70,000 high quality audio pronunciations of headwords, phrases, derived words, and inflected forms are spoken
With fast and powerful searching across all components, this CD-ROM offers an unrivalled guide to the English language today. Much more than just an electronic dictionary, it contains:
Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners including:
- 2,000 new words that have come into use
- improved coverage of American English
- updated definitions to make them simpler and provide a clearer understanding.
- full installation to the hard drive option for fast and easy reference without using the CD. Requires 50 MB free if the audio is not installed and 600MB of free hard disk drive space to install everything.
- Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage - rapid access to additional information on how to use the word
- Collins COBUILD English Grammar - For a full explanation of English Grammar terms.
- Fast reference to the grammar symbols in the help file Simple easy to understand definitions for the grammar symbols so you can fully understand how the word is used.
- quickly retrieve examples of the use of words in real English text, written and spoken from the Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples
- Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
- over 70,000 high quality audio pronunciations of headwords, phrases, derived words, and inflected forms
- new record and playback feature so users can compare their own pronunciation with the high quality recording on the CD-ROM
- full text search over all the contents of this comprehensive CD-ROM
- one-click hyperlinking so the user can link quickly and easily move between the dictionary, grammar, usage, thesaurus and Word Bank
What's New in Collins COBUILD Resource Pack:
- Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus
- Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
- Collins COBUILD English Grammar
- Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
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