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    The document provides examples of common English collocations involving "do" and "make". It lists 15 collocations - such as "do good", "do harm", "do your best", "do business", and "make a decision" - and provides the meaning and an example sentence for each one. The collocations cover a variety of topics including effects, favors, duties, hobbies, professions, decisions, mistakes, travel arrangements and more.

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    The document provides examples of common English collocations involving "do" and "make". It lists 15 collocations - such as "do good", "do harm", "do your best", "do business", and "make a decision" - and provides the meaning and an example sentence for each one. The collocations cover a variety of topics including effects, favors, duties, hobbies, professions, decisions, mistakes, travel arrangements and more.

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    The document provides examples of common English collocations involving "do" and "make". It lists 15 collocations - such as "do good", "do harm", "do your best", "do business", and "make a decision" - and provides the meaning and an example sentence for each one. The collocations cover a variety of topics including effects, favors, duties, hobbies, professions, decisions, mistakes, travel arrangements and more.

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    Frequent Collocation

    • English Language and Culture •


    2019
    Aixa Quiroga

    Activities:
    Write the meanings of the rest of the collocations, and think about examples.

    Collocations

    Frequent collocation Meaning Example

    Have an effect: to have a particular A week in the countryside will do


    Do good
    effect on something or someone you good (=make you feel better)

    •Harm: Damage, injury, or trouble


    caused by someone’s actions or by
    an event. Do (something) harm. • It wouldn't do you any harm to get
    Do harm
    •Spoken used to suggest that some experience first.
    someone should do something that
    may be helpful or useful to them.

    •To try as hard as you can to do


    As long as you do your best, we’ll
    Do your best something.
    be happy.
    •Do your best to do something.

    •Something that you do in order to


    help them or be kind to them. Do
    °Could you do me a favour?
    somebody a favour.
    Do a favour •Used when you are annoyed
    °Did you like it? Do me a favour.
    because someone has asked a silly
    question or done something to upset
    people. Do me/us a favour.

    The activity of making money by


    producing or buying and selling A lot of firms are keen to do
    Do business
    goods, or providing services. Do business in Japan.
    business.

    Something that you have to do


    Do your duty because it is morally or legally I felt I had done my duty by voting.
    right.
    Do sport An activity that people do. I did a lot of sport at school.

    Exercise: Physical activities that


    Most people need to do more
    Do exercise you do in order to stay healthy and
    exercise.
    become stronger.

    To do something that improves your


    Do your hair appearance or someone else’s • I paint her face and do her hair.
    appearance

    Do the room

    Mph: used to describe the speed


    Do 80 mph of something, especially a Can you do 80 mph in your car?
    vehicle or the wind.

    To talk about something a lot, so Modern men who make a noise


    Make a noise that people will notice it – used about the fact that they know
    to show disapproval. how to look good.

    When you speak to someone on I need to make a quick phone


    Make a phone call
    the telephone. call

    Decision:a choice or judgment


    I want to think about it a bit
    Make a decision that you make after a period of
    longer before I make a decision.
    discussion or thought.

    Effort:
    •The physical or mental energy
    that is needed to do something.
    She made an effort to change the
    Make an effort •An attempt to do something,
    subject of the conversation.
    especially when this involves a
    lot of hard work or
    determination.

    Mistake: Something that has


    been done in the wrong way, or The lab must have made a
    Make a mistake
    an opinion or statement that is mistake – this can’t be right.
    incorrect.

    An occasion when you travel


    I still use my car, but now I make
    Make a journey from one place to another,
    fewer journeys.
    especially over a long distance.

    Arrangement: Plans and You are advised to make travel


    Make arrangement preparations that you must make arrangements well in advance.
    so that something can happen.

    1
    Attempt: an act of trying to do
    She made several attempts to
    Make an attempt something, especially something
    escape.
    difficult.

    Money: what you earn by


    working and can use to buy
    make money (=make a profit)
    things. Money can be in the
    Make money The farm was beginning to make
    form of notes and coins or
    money at last
    cheques, and can be kept in a
    bank.

    Money that you gain by selling


    We are in business to make a
    Make a profit things or doing business, after
    profit.
    your costs have been paid.

    Love: to have a strong feeling of


    Make love affectionfor someone, combined
    withsexual attraction.

    Peace: a situation in which there


    Hardliners criticized the Israeli
    is no war or fighting.
    Make peace prime minister for trying to
    Make peace (with somebody):
    make peace with the
    Agree to stop fighting.
    Palestinians.

    Make war: to start and continue


    Their aim was to destroy the
    Make war a war.
    country’s capacity to wage war.

    Make a fire

    Make the bed

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