Word and Its Verb
Eight scenes, each showing the action the word insists on.
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Learn each one as a pair. The verb is not something you can work out.
Words for health topics in their correct forms, and the fixed word pairs this topic uses.
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Each noun insists on one verb. There is no rule — only the pairs.
I try to ______ exercise three times a week.
Eight nouns, and the verb each one insists on.
You already know exercise, diet, sleep, habit. Nothing in this sprint is a new word.
What is new is that each of them comes with a fixed verb, and using a different one — even a sensible one — sounds wrong to a native speaker straight away:
✅ I do exercise. ❌ I make exercise.
✅ She follows a diet. ❌ She makes a diet.
✅ I want to break this habit. ❌ I want to stop this habit.
There is no logic connecting them. Make is perfectly good English and it simply does not go with exercise.
Eight scenes, each showing the action the word insists on.
Learn each one as a pair. The verb is not something you can work out.
Eight nouns. Which verb does each one insist on?
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Three sentences where the sensible verb is the wrong one.
Chain 1
The sentence: I try to ___ exercise three times a week.
Candidates: do / make
The verb:
Because:
Chain 2
The sentence: After the operation he ___ treatment for six months.
Candidates: received / took
The verb:
Because:
Chain 3
The sentence: I am trying to ___ the habit of checking my phone at night.
Candidates: break / stop
The verb:
Because:
A Task 2 paragraph — some gaps want the verb, some want the right form of the noun.
Most people know what a lifestyle looks like. The difficulty is not knowledge but time.
Doctors recommend that adults at least half an hour of exercise a day, and that they a diet with more vegetables and less sugar in it. Both are simple to describe and hard to keep up when you work long hours.
Sleep is the part people give up first. Adults who do not enough sleep are more likely to become during the winter, and once someone an illness they lose more days than the extra hours ever gained them.
In my view the most useful change is the smallest one: one bad habit rather than trying to change everything at once. Someone who manages to reasonably fit through the winter has already done more than most.