“Time” is one of the most common words in English – but do you know all the different ways you can use the word time?
In today’s lesson, you’ll learn 16 common collocations with the word TIME, such as: waste time, kill time, it’s about time, stall for time, and more.
There’s also a quiz to help you practice the collocations in this lesson – scroll down to the bottom of the lesson to try it!
But first, you might be wondering, what are collocations?
Collocations are the common combinations of words that we tend to use together. When you learn collocations, it will be easier to put words together into sentences, and you’ll sound more like a native English speaker.
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