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This page offers information about some common corpus tools and links to resources on the web. Via Anthony Heald 
phraseup* assists you with writing by finding and filling-in the words you can't remember... WebCorp: Using the World Wide Web as a corpus - a rich source of linguistic information. Produces words clouds and mini-concordances from texts you paste in. Just copy some text into a text box and CONCORDLE will create a text cloud. The more often a word appears, the larger it appears in the cloud. Every word is clickable - clicking on a word shows you how the word is used in the text. 
You can use this tool to count the number of web results for two given phrases or expressions. 
Wordnik is a dictionary, thesaurus, word community, and more. Dictionary Definitions and Example Sentences from Wordnik. 
Compleat Lexical Tutor’s Corpus Grammar Exercises—Developed by Tom Cobb. This page will show you how consulting a corpus can help you find and correct errors in collocations and lexical and grammatical structures. Read an error sentence—e.g., ‘He’s going to home”—and click on the “CONC” link to look up “home” in a corpus. See for yourself whether “go to home” is a common structure in English. 
"Enter an English word here to see its collocations, each with an example sentences from the corpus." 
"StringNet is an English lexico-grammatical knowledgebase consisting of multiword patterns of word behavior." 
100+ million word corpus of British English, 1980s-1993. Freely-available online. Allows for an extremely wide range of searches. |
You can now input an entire text -- maybe a newspaper article that you've copied from a website, or something you've written -- and it will then give you detailed information about the words and phrases in the text. There's now no need to copy and paste individual words and phrases into the regular COCA interface -- just work seamlessly from your original text. 
This is a great site to help you with sentence structure. Just type in the beginning of the sentence and it will offer you options for the next word in the sentence. Via Nik Peachey Allows for the free on-line phraseological interrogation of the BNC in strings up to eight words long. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English 
The podcast that helps learners of English master the Academic Word List... Provides useful contextual information about academic words. 
425 million word corpus of American English, 1990-2011. Compare to the BNC and ANC. Large, balanced, up-to-date, and freely-available online. 
An article about Concordancers in ELT Submitted by NikPeachey on 25 April, 2005 - 12:00 
Netspeak helps you improve your writing. It is a new kind of dictionary which contains billions of phrases and how commonly they are used. 
"Word Neighbors allows you to look up the contexts of any word within 4 words to the left and 4 words to the right." |
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