Vocabulary Match
Grow your English vocabulary with a free, browser-based matching game. See a word, pick its correct meaning, and build retention through play.
WordsVerb Collocations
English verbs do not combine freely with nouns. You make a decision but take a photo, and no rule derives which is which. Below: the highest-frequency pairs and the do/make split that trips most learners.
Choose your difficulty
Pick a level to start playing. You can switch at any time.
How to play
Read the noun phrase, then tap the verb that really goes with it.
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WordsWhat you are actually practicing
English verbs do not combine freely with nouns. You make a decision, take a photo, do homework and catch a cold — and no rule derives which verb goes where. These pairings are conventions, learned as whole phrases.
That is why collocations are the last thing to feel natural and the first thing that marks a text as written by a non-native speaker. This game drills the most frequent ones.
How the game works
You are shown a noun phrase and four verbs. Pick the verb that actually collocates with it. A wrong pick reveals the correct verb immediately.
Easy uses the highest-frequency pairs. Medium widens the set. Hard uses the full list, including nouns that also combine with other common verbs.
The pairs worth knowing
make: make a decision, make a mistake, make a noise, make an effort, make a phone call.
take: take a photo, take a shower, take a break, take a risk, take a seat.
do: do homework, do a favour.
have / keep / catch: have a look, keep a secret, catch a cold, catch a train.
Strategies that actually raise your score
Learn the pair, not the verb. Memorising that make means "create" does not tell you that you make a decision. Store the whole phrase and the choice disappears.
Watch for do and make. They are the pair learners confuse most: do is for tasks and obligations, make is for producing an outcome — a decision, a mistake, a plan.
Use the article as a clue. If the phrase contains a plus a countable noun, take and have are far more likely than do.
Reject by sound. Idiomatic collocations sound unremarkable; wrong ones sound slightly off. Under a countdown the ear is often faster than the rule, so read the whole phrase and trust the hesitation.