Exercise

Can you find the verb which does not collocate with the noun in bold?

• 1. acknowledge, feel, express, make, hide, overcome, admit shame
• 2. apply for, catch, create, get, hold, hunt for, lose, take up job
• 3. acquire, brush up, enrich, learn, pick up, tell, use language
• 4. assess, cause, mend, repair, suffer, sustain, take damage
• 5. beg, answer, kneel in, offer, say, utter prayer
• 6. brush, cap, drill, fill, gnash, grit, wash teeth
• 7. derive, enhance, find, give, pursue, reach, savour, pleasure
• 8. disturb, interrupt, maintain, observe, pierce, reduce to, suffer silence

Answers
1. make 2. catch 3. tell 4. take 5. beg 6. wash 7. reach 8. suffer (only with suffer in silence)