English Collocations Proficiency Quiz!
13 Questions
| Total Attempts: 373
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is a collocation?
- A.
Collocation is a type of formulaic language. Formulaic language consists of fixed expressions that you learn and understand as units rather than as individual words.
- B.
Collocation means a natural combination of words.
- C.
Collocation is a pair or a group of words that are often used together.
- D.
Collocation is a verb that consists of a verb and a particle or a verb and two particles.
- 2.
![Which of these words does fast collocate with car, food, glance, meal? - ProProfs]( "Which of these words does fast collocate with car, food, glance, meal?")
Which of these words does fast collocate with car, food, glance, meal?- A.
Food
- B.
Car
- C.
Meal
- D.
Glance
- 3.Which of these are compounds: computer, narrow-minded, teapot, ancient monument, car park?
- A.
Computer
- B.
Narrow-minded
- C.
Teapot
- D.
Car park
- E.
Ancient monument
- 4.What do we call expressions like passing the buck and be over the moon?
- A.
Collocations
- B.
Idioms
- C.
Phrasal verbs
- 5.Learning collocations will make your English sound more natural.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Learning collocations will help you to express yourself in a variety of ways.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.You will not be understood unless you use collocations properly.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Learning collocations will help you to write better English.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Make a mistake, a storm in a tea cup and live music are:
- A.
Compound, idioms and collocation
- B.
Idiom, collocation and compound
- C.
Collocation, idiom and compound
- 10.When I left university I [Blank] a decision to take up a profession in which I could be creative.
- 11.I could [Blank] the guitar, but I’d never[Blank] any songs.
- 12.I[Blank]some recordings but I had a rather heavy cold, so they didn’t sound good. I made some more, and sent them to a record company and waited for them to reply.
- 13.So, while I was waiting to [Blank] famous, I[Blank] a job in a fastfood restaurant. That was five years ago. I’m still [Blank] the same job.
English I
Level: A1
Units I and II
Skill: Use of English and vocabulary.
Total Grade: 20
Total of items: 20
Students: University students
Number of students: 20
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