اللغة الإنجليزية — Collocations: Make vs Do — 2nd Year Middle School — Algerian Curriculum

Make vs Do: Common Collocations

In English, make and do are often confused. They form fixed expressions called collocations. Learning these patterns will make your English sound more natural.

DO is used for: work, tasks, activities, and general actions (especially when we don’t specify the activity).

MAKE is used for: creating, constructing, producing, and causing something.

Examples

• DO collocations: do homework, do housework, do the dishes, do the shopping, do business, do a favour, do your best, do nothing, do well, do sports, do exercise
• MAKE collocations: make a mistake, make a decision, make a plan, make an effort, make a phone call, make money, make a difference, make a cake, make a noise, make progress, make breakfast

Exercises

Exercise: Fill with make or do: 1. I need to _______________ my homework. 2. She _______________ a cake for my birthday. 3. Can you _______________ me a favour? 4. He _______________ a lot of money. 5. Just _______________ your best! 6. I _______________ a mistake on the test.

Answers

1. do, 2. made, 3. do, 4. makes, 5. do, 6. made

Related Lessons

Check our other English grammar lessons for more practice: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, and Future Tenses. Practice makes perfect!

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• اللغة الإنجليزية — Present Simple: Formation, Usage and Exercises — 1st Year M
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• اللغة الإنجليزية — Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs — 2nd Year Middle
• اللغة الإنجليزية — Future with Will and Going To — 2nd Year Middle School — A