Academic Collocation List: verb + adjective collocations Test yourself on v + adj combinations

About the quiz

This quiz covers all the verb and adjective collocations from the Academic Collocation List (ACL), a list containing 2,469 of the most frequent and useful collocations which occur in written academic English. There are 30 verb and adjective collocations, which are also shown below.

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Learning Outcomes

By completing this quiz, you will:

• be familiar with verb and adjective collocations from the Academic Collocation List.

Verb + adverb collocations

Below is a list of all 30 verb and adverb collocations from the Academic Collocation List. You might want to study these before you take the quiz.

• become apparent
• become available
• become aware
• become blurred
• become established
• become evident
• become independent
• become involved (with/in)
• become obvious
• become visible
• become widespread
• consider appropriate
• consider relevant
• deem appropriate
• deem necessary
• get involved (with/in)
• prove successful
• prove useful
• make available
• make aware
• make explicit
• make visible
• remain constant
• remain stable
• remain unchanged
• remain unclear
• seem appropriate
• seem obvious
• seem plausible
• seem unlikely