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The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - A life at a time for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs. Close your book and brainstorm a list of verbs that go with the nouns 'wish' or 'wishes'. Then look at the article and check your ideas.
  2. Compare the collocations in the article with the extract from an online collocations dictionary above.

Answer

  1. Examples in the article → grant your every wish, express a wish, make a wish come true, fulfil a wish
  2. A collocations dictionary can help with both range and accuracy when writing. You can choose key words related to a topic and list relevant collocations during the drafting stage.

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