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Collocations Exercise

The document provides a collocations exercise where the reader must fill in the blanks of 10 sentences with the appropriate verb from a choice of 3 options to complete the collocation. The answers are then provided. The summary focuses on the high level purpose and structure: The document presents a collocations exercise testing the reader's knowledge of verbs that collocate with different phrases. For each of 10 sentences, the reader must choose the correct verb from 3 options to complete the collocation. The answers are listed at the end to check the reader's responses.

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Collocations Exercise

The document provides a collocations exercise where the reader must fill in the blanks of 10 sentences with the appropriate verb from a choice of 3 options to complete the collocation. The answers are then provided. The summary focuses on the high level purpose and structure: The document presents a collocations exercise testing the reader's knowledge of verbs that collocate with different phrases. For each of 10 sentences, the reader must choose the correct verb from 3 options to complete the collocation. The answers are listed at the end to check the reader's responses.

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Collocations exercise

Fill in the blanks using appropriate verbs that would complete the collocation.

1. If you park there, you will have to ………………………….. a fine.

a) pay b) take c) have

2. He …………………………… no attention to my requests.

a) paid b) took c) had

3. I ……………………….. a cough to catch her attention.

a) gave b) paid c) took

4. Although the doctors tried hard, they couldn’t ………………………….. his life.

a) save b) bring c) take

5. Abbreviations ………………………… space and hence they are very common in newspaper
headlines.

a) catch b) save c) take

6. Do you ……………………….. a diary?

a) keep b) have b) save

7. Few people can …………………………. a secret.

a) keep b) save c) have

8. He still ……………………………. in touch with most of his old school mates.

a) keeps b) saves c) take

9. I asked her what her problem was but she ……………………………….. quiet.

a) kept b) took c) saved

10. They ………………………….. close to hitting each other.

a) came b) took c) brought


Answers

1. If you park there, you will have to pay a fine.

2. He paid no attention to my requests.

3. I gave a cough to catch her attention.

4. Although the doctors tried hard, they couldn’t save his life.

5. Abbreviations save space and hence they are very common in newspaper headlines.

6. Do you keep a diary?

7. Few people can keep a secret.

8. He still keeps in touch with most of his old school mates.

9. I asked her what her problem was but she kept quiet.

10. They came close to hitting each other.

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