Ways of speaking

Exercise 49.2

Correct the collocation errors in these sentences.

1. You can borrow my camera – I’ll make you instructions about how to use it.
2. I could say you a lot of stories about what we used to do when we were kids.
3. That’s enough about computers. I think it’s time we moved the subject, don’t you?
4. On the train I hit up a conversation with an interesting man from Japan.
5. I can’t talk Japanese.
6. I’m afraid I really don’t have time for a large discussion on the matter.
7. The US President George Washington is famous for confessing after saying a lie.
8. I don’t like your note of voice – there’s no need to be so aggressive.