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ACl highlighter

ACL highlighter & gapfill Find academic collocations in a text

Use this tool to highlight collocations (word combinations) from the ACL (Academic Collocation List). Enter the text in the box below then click 'submit'. Note that ACL covers 1.4% of written English (compared to 10% for the AWL), so there are likely to be only a few collocations in any given text. If you want to use the gapfill maker (below), you will need to input and highlight the text first. You may also like to try the AWL highlighter, which uses words from the AWL and is a companion to this page.




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Gapfill Maker Create a simple exercise

Create a simple gapfill for the above text. You will need the words above to complete it. This works best if there are several collocations in the text; if there are only one or two, the exercise will be too easy!





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Sheldon Smith

Author: Sheldon Smith    ‖    Last modified: 02 March 2022.

Sheldon Smith is the founder and editor of EAPFoundation.com. He has been teaching English for Academic Purposes since 2004. Find out more about him in the about section and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.



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