AV Practice: Word forms and Collocations

Set 1

1. Match the lists below with the appropriate words in the table to form collocations.

commission chapter administrate category aspect

appropriate assist affect acquire achieve

1. attain,achieve
…….., reach, gain, conclude
2. obtain, receive, get, acquire
…….., bring in
…….., dispense, execute, apportion, distribute
3.administate
affect
4. alter, change, influence, involve, ……….
5. allot, devote,appopriate
………, disburse, proper
6. feature, facet, detail, aspect
…….., side
assist
7. ……., help, aid, accommodate, abet
category
8. class, group, list, genre, ……..
9. section, part, segment,chapter
……., portion
10. committee,commission
………, council, delegation, convocation

2. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets.

1. From this information, a job completion date is produced: The target is achievement
………..
(achieve), but only by hard work.
2. After announcing the acquistion
………. (acquire) in June 1994, Harvard encountered rough waters
in bringing the deal to harbour.
………….. (administrative) and financially, cancer was now set apart from other dread
3.Administratively
diseases; it was institutionally special, with a special political base and a special scientific
and clinical agenda.
4. They may make representation to government on matters …………. affecting (affect) their
organization.
5. Details of the problem will be logged by the Help Desk staff who will then contact
theappropriacy
……….. (appropriate) agency.
6. Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this ………. aspect (aspect) of the
information age.
7. Since 1976 he has been operating the shop with the ……….. assistant (assist) of volunteers.
categorise
8. An essential ingredient of this is the ability to ………… (category) each patient by
disease type or treatment group.
chapter (chapter) describes the strange sequence of events that lead to his death.
9. The first ……….
commission (commission) had varying amounts of autonomy from
10. These boards and …………….
city departments and the public officials who appointed them.