Some words are frequently combined with other
words, and these words naturally go together, creating common
phrases. Words that appear in frequent combination are called collocations.
This exercise will acquaint you with some frequently used word
combinations.
Directions:
• Read the sentences and note the blanks followed by words
in italics. These phrases are commonly used collocations. • Try to
guess a word for each blank. Write in your guess and hit Enter or the Tab
key. If you guessed correctly, the word will appear in green. • If you didn't
guess the word commonly used with the other words in the phrase, your answer will be red. Type in a question mark , hit Enter and then learn the phrase. All of these phrases are in frequent use. [In some instances another word would be correct, but learn the phrase as it is given here.] • Continue with the exercise. Redo the exercise until you can fill all the blanks correctly. Use the Tab key to move from blank to blank.
1. To a project to successful
completion, one must a schedule. People who succeed,
their time and don't time on
frivolous .
2. Many students are procrastinators. They putdoing their homework until the last minute. Such students
never anything done time. They quickly
behind, and midway through the semester they
feel because they have doing their required assignments. Due to their tendency to , they bad grades and begin to
fear . As a result, many such students out of school.
3. to the article, students
procrastinate for three reasons:
They have poor time-
skills.
They have difficulty
They are too about doing
everything perfectly.
4. Here are some tips for overcoming chronic
procrastination:
Identify your goals and ask what you need to do
to your goals.