Increase Your IELTS Vocabulary Score – Collocation of Limit
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Key Word:Limit
Verb+Limit
1. Choose the correct verb in the sentences:
- I think we should______a time limit on applications. Shall we say all applications must be received by Friday 13th? (set/seek)
- At present you have to be 18 in order to vote. A growing number of people want the limit______to 16. (decreased/lowered)
- The police are warning drivers to keep to the speed limit. There will be tough penalties for those drivers who______it. (top/exceed)
- I’ve had enough. I’ve______the limit of my patience with this child. See if you can get him to eat his food! (got/reached)
- Parents need to______limits on the amount of time their children spend on the internet. (take/impose)
- The race is over 50 kilometres of rough countryside, so I think it will certainly______the limits of my ability and endurance. (test/check)
- I’m nearly 70 and I______my limits. I don’t have the strength to go shopping every day now. (know / get)
Common Noun Expressions
2. Use the following expressions in the sentences:
| age limit | speed limit | city limits |
| time limit | spending limits | credit limit |
- The city council maintain that they will need to cut back on some public services in order to meet the latest______set by the government.
- There are speed cameras all over the place, so make sure you keep to the______while you’re here.
- When you finish the report, just put it in my in- tray. There’s no______but as long as I have it sometime next week, that’ll be fine.
- Recently, there have been calls to reduce the______for voting from 18 to 16.
- At the moment I’ve got a £3,000______on my Visa card, but I’m thinking of increasing it so that I can buy a second-hand car.
- We live just outside the______.
Common Adjective Collocations
3. Match the two halves of these situations:
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a. but costs must be kept within reasonable limits. |
| 2. When some pictures come up for auction, | b. above the prescribed limit set by the authorities. |
| 3. The company is willing to fund the event, | c. inside a five-mile limit. |
| 4. The level of fluoride in the drinking water was | d. stria limits on public spending this year. |
| 5. In order to control inflation the government has set | e. but that would be my absolute limit. |
| 6. Some species of fish are now in real danger of disappearing. | f. he was well over the legal limit. |
| 7. I’d pay £5,000 for a Jaguar in that condition, | g. The North Sea has been fished beyond acceptable limits. |
| 8. The Russian boats are not allowed to fish | h. It’s obvious that some people are so rich they have no upper limit on what they are prepared to pay. |
Notes1. In 1-2‘reduce’is also possible. 2. Note the prepositions in these expressions:
3. Note these expressions using verb+‘to the limit’:
4. The following expressions mean that there is no limit to what can be done:
5. Note this more formal expression:
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Answer Key
Verb+Limit
Ex 1:
- set
- lowered
- exceed
- reached
- impose
- test
- know
Common Noun Expressions
Ex 2:
- spending limits
- speed limit
- time limit
- age limit
- credit limit
- city limits
Common Adjective Collocations
Ex 3:
- f
- h
- a
- b
- d
- g
- e
- c
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