Welcome to our series of posts about articles! Over the next month, we’ll take a deep dive into this fascinating—and, let’s be honest, sometimes pesky—English grammar point. Today, we’ll start with a refresher. Note that a dedicated post focused specifically on article practice will follow the theoretical ones.
Do and make are among the most frequently used verbs in English. It’s no wonder there are so many collocations, or word combinations, with them that we use daily. However, it’s easy to sometimes get them wrong. In this post, we’d like to challenge you with a test to assess your proficiency in using some of the most common collocations. Following that, we’ll provide a comprehensive list of collocations with “do” and “make,” totaling 50, with 25 for each verb. Afterward, we’ll present another 2 tests. We encourage you to revisit this post whenever you have doubts and need to review the collocations. So, without further ado, let’s proceed with the test.
Dear readers, if you’ve been following us for some time, you’ve probably noticed that we stick to American English on this blog for the sake of consistency. We do point out regional differences when they’re worth noting, but today we’re going to dive into British English like never before. A delicious portion of delightful language awaits you—so read on to discover a bunch of words and expressions commonly used in the UK!
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