🧩 Collocations and phrases

I’ve decided that teaching is not the right profession for me

• come to the conclusion

• arrived at the conclusion

• reached the conclusion

Could you tell me where you were last night?

give an account of

The journalist pretended that she was a parent of one of the children.

give the false impression

The adverts look exactly the same as the articles in the magazine.

can’t tell the difference between

Terry and I started arguing about the situation in the Middle East.

get into an argument with sb about sth

I’m sure we’ll be able to agree on this matter

• reach an understanding

• come to an understanding

There is no truth behind this accusations in the press.

have no foundation

be without foundation

The medicine should start working soon.

• feel the benefits of sth

• see the benefits of sth

I just did what the sergeant orderred me to do.

act on sb’s order

Maybe I didn’t explain exactly what I mean.

make it clear

make myself clear

I didn’t tell Angie because I didn’t want to hurt Eddie’s feelings.

• out of consideration for sb

• out of respect for sb

I’m sure Nacy is still presuming that the party starts at nine.

be under the impression

I told Jeanne, thinking that she’d be supportive, how wrong I was!

in the (mistaken) belief

Many voters mistakenly believed that the new policy would instantly lower inflation.

be under the misapprehension

It only took us a few days to get to Milan.

• a matter of

• within a period of

The stringent environmental regulations will become officially valid on the first of January.

with effect from

He acted enterely without thinking.

on the spur of the moment

We’ll send you the details soon.

in due course

Generally speaking, the project went wel.

on the whole

The new rules take effect immediately.

come into force

The factory operates twenty-four hours a day.

around the clock

She passed the exam with no difficulty at all.

with the greatest of ease