Using Collocation to Boost Your IELTS Score-Key Word:Result

Key Word:Result

Verb+Result(s)

1. Use the correct form of these verbs:

1. With both France and Italy playing well it is difficult to______the result of the match between the two teams.
2. He is anxiously______the results of medical tests.
3. I don’t know if I will be going to university next year. Everything______the results of my examinations.
4. This new diet relies on eating less food in order to obtain results. I’ve been following the diet for a month and I’m just beginning to______some results.
5. Have you______the results of your blood test yet?
6. I finished my exams yesterday, but I won’t______the results for a month. It’s going to be a nail- biting time until I hear the results.

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Results+Verb

2. Use the correct form of these verbs:

1. Early results______that the government will be returned to power with a big majority.
2. The results of the tests______my worst fears – I’m losing my sight.
3. We’re delighted at the results our students achieved. These results______all our expectations.
4. The results of these latest experiments seem to______the theory that music can help people to think better. I think I’ll start listening to Mozart while I’m doing my homework!
5. These results______a major breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS.
6. I don’t think these latest results______that one school is better than any other.

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Common Adjective Collocations

3. Use the following adjectives in these sentences:

1. There was little the doctors could do to save the woman. She died as a______result of the injuries she received in the crash.
2. I tried to put up a bookshelf with______results! I only succeeded in making two large holes in the wall!
3. I’m not quite sure what the______result of all these meetings is. I just hope that something constructive will come out of it!
4. Long traffic jams were the______result of the decision to ban cars from the city centre.
5. For______results, bake the pie at a low temperature.
6. The team should have done much better – what a______result!

Answer Key

Ex 1:

1. predict
2. awaiting
3. depends on
4. see
5. had
6. know

Ex 2:

1. indicate
2. confirmed
3. exceeded
4. support
5. represent
6. prove

Ex 3:

1. direct
2. disastrous
3. end
4. inevitable
5. best
6. disappointing

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