Online tools to find collocations
At the moment, whenever I need to find some collocations for a word, what I usually do is go https://fraze.it/ and type the word and find some words that I can use together. Alternatively, sometimes I load https://books.google.com/ngrams and guess certain collocations and search to make sure whether I'm correct or not.
However, both of above tools accept some rare usages as well. For example, "intrusion of privacy" is correct according to the Ngram. However, I know "invasion of privacy" is more common than the previous one. Therefore, as far as I'm concerned, the second phrase is more natural than the first one.
Please someone, tell me how can I find most natural collocations for a given word. For instance, even though I know the meaning of "imperceptible", I don't know how to use that accurately, due to the lack of knowledge about the related collocations. Hence, please someone tell me if there is any online tools to find such collocations.
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dileepa However, both of above tools accept some rare usages as well. For example, "intrusion of privacy" is correct according to the Ngram. It seems as if you may not realise that the Google 'Ngrams' tool allows you to compare frequencies.
- dileepa However, both of above tools accept some rare usages as well.
- For example, "intrusion of privacy" is correct according to the Ngram.
- It seems as if you may not realise that the Google 'Ngrams' tool allows you to compare frequencies.
- content=intrusion+of+privacy%2C+invasion+of+privacy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3
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dileepaHowever, both of above tools accept some rare usages as well. For example, "intrusion of privacy" is correct according to the Ngram.
It seems as if you may not realise that the Google 'Ngrams' tool allows you to compare frequencies. For example, the following search will show you that usage of the phrase "intrusion of privacy" is negligible compared
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