Adjective and noun, verb and adverb, adverb and adjective, verb and object



A collocation is a pair or group of words that are often used together.



ž We can say highly sophisticated, and we can say extremely happy. Both adverbs have the
same lexical functions, that is adding the degree, or magnifying the impact of the adjectives
(sophisticated, extremely), However, they are not interchangeable. Still, other adverbs, such
as very can replace both highly and extremely.
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ž Unlike the majority of idioms, collocations are subject to syntactic modification. For example,
we can say effective writing and write effectively.
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1)Did the fire do / make much damage to the factory?
2)I hate doing / making my homework at the last minute.
3)You must do / make an effort to work harder.
4)Did you do / make any work at the weekend?
5)We are trying to do / make improvements to the systém for registering.
6)Do you think it would do / make any harm if I cut some leaves off this plant?

1)She had / took / paid attention to what I told her and started working harder.
2)I had / make / took over a hundred photographs on my trip to Antarctica.
3)She made / paid / brought me a nice commpliment yesterday.
4)I got / made / had a bad dream last night and woke up sweating.
5)The President made / gave / paid tribute to all the people who had supported him.
6)I got / took / had liking to our new teacher the moment I met her.

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