Luyện ngữ pháp - English Collocations in Use - Intermediate ((Unit 1: Learning about collocations))


Finding, recording and learning collocations

Exercises 2.4

Look at this entry for the verb lead in the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. What collocations could you learn from this entry? Underline or highlight them. Then write one new sentence for each of them.

Lead to control a group of people, a country, or a situation:
  • I think we've chosen the right person to lead the expedition.
  • I've asked Gemma to lead the discussion.
  • Who will be leading the inquiry into the accident?
lead sb by the nose INFORAML to control someone and make them do exactly what you want them to do

Answer

  1. He led an expedition to the Amazon in 1887.
  2. She led the discussion very skilfully.
  3. The Prime Minister appointed a senior judge to lead the inquiry into the scandal.

See also Unit 3, Using your dictionary.

Over to you
Use a dictionary to find three or four other good collocations for each of these words:
  • desperately
  • pain
  • wise
  • run

Write the collocations you find in an appropriate way in your vocabulary notebook.

Answer

Here are some possible good collocations for the words suggested. You may choose to record them in different ways, of course. The important thing is that they are recorded as collocations in a phrase or sentence that will help you to understand their meaning and to remember them.
desperately ill; desperately busy; desperately keen; desperately in love with an acute pain; a sudden pain; to relieve the pain; to put up with pain (see also Unit 3) a wise decision; to be older and wiser; to be wise after the event; a wise guy (informal) to run a business; to run smoothly; buses run regularly; to run for political office

- Lesson 2: Exercises 2.3 - Lesson 3: Introduce


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