Collocations for IELTS Word Fight

Collegedunia Team

Dec 27, 2021

Learning collocations is one of the most necessary steps for those students who genuinely want to increase their IELTS scores. The appropriate and logical usage of collocations in IELTS aids candidates to speak and write English like an innate speaker. The rich knowledge of collocations helps candidates in developing commendable vocabulary. Examiners usually look for collocations in IELTS while marking the answers.

Voracious reading, continuous writing, IELTS speaking, and practicing are effective ways to learn collocations and achieve desired scores.

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Collocations for IELTS- “Fight”

Fight as a noun means; struggle or a violent confrontation.

Fight as Adjective

Meaning:- Real, Furious, Big, Fierce, Good, Fair, Running, Free

Sentences:-

  • Suddenly, the small issues turned into a big fight.
  • Today, I saw a furious fight between cat and dog.
  • It was a fair fight between two strong wrestlers.
  • Unfortunately, Ravi was killed during a series of running fights outside a metro station.
  • You never need to mix up in any free fight, it could be dangerous for you.
  • After a fierce fight, Ravana was killed by Lord Rama.

Meaning:- Straight, street, gang, food, water, pillow, food, bull, dog, cat

Sentences:-

  • Bollywood always shows catfights between two heroines.
  • The war result has set up a straight fight between two nations who know each other better than the other.
  • College boys organize a street fight on their college campus.
  • My dear friend, don’t take me wrong, but I would never follow you into a gang fight.
  • Yesterday I had a pillow fight with my girlfriend, and to be very honest that was truly romantic.

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VERB + FIGHT

Meaning:- Start, Pick, Want, Be looking for, Be spilling for, break up, stop

Sentences:-

  • I am tired of picking a fight with you
  • I really don’t know who started the fight with you.
  • Please try to don’t get into any more fights with your family.
  • The fight was broken up by me.
  • The teacher warned students to stop fighting with each other.

Meaning:- Win, Watch, Loss

Sentences:-

  • Waldimar wins a fight against Pozzo.
  • Have you watched the fight between two creepy people on social media?
  • She lost the fight against blood cancer.

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FIGHT + VERB

Meaning:- Ensue, start, breakout, Erupt, take place

Sentences:-

  • Street animal fights took place everyday in our colony.
  • A bloody fight ensued which left one person dead.
  • The soldiers of the USSR fought bravely.
  • In order to achieve the distinction, they were fighting to stay awake.

Preposition

Meaning:- in a/the, with, about/over, between

Sentences:-

  • I had a serious fight with my boss yesterday.
  • These two boys are fighting over a girl.
  • What are you fighting about?
  • I have seen fighting between the two boys.
  • They got involved in a fierce fight with some other gang.

Adjective

Meaning:- Good, brave, strong, real, long, tough, legal, bitter

Sentence:-

  • I had a strong fight with her.
  • Legal fights will take a long time to resolve.
  • They had a bitter fight for a long time.
  • He gives a tough fight to the opponent.
  • Seema died at the age of 25 after a brave fight against covid-19.

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Verb+Fight

Meaning:- Put Up, join (in), be engaged in, take, face

Sentences:-

  • Factory workers are ready to put up a fight against the new policy.
  • Doctors have now gathered to join in the fight to make Plasma therapy available to all needy patients.
  • She said to me that she would continue her fight to find a solution to this problem.
  • Delhi police have vowed to step up the special team to fight against domestic violence.
  • Due to coronavirus, she just gave up her fight for life.
  • Is NCB losing the fight against the illegal distribution of drugs?
  • Now, we all are facing our toughest fight yet? back to fitness after a long break.

Fight+Verb

Meaning:- go on, continue, be on

Sentences:-

  • Our fight against domestic violence goes on.
  • The fight is on to have this harsh practice stamped out.
  • For their rights, they are ready to fight continuously.
  • Still, her fight against HIV aids goes on.

Preposition

Meaning:- for, against, without a

Sentences:-

  • Without your moral support, we can’t fight against criminals.
  • We should never give up without a fight.
  • They fight for a fair deal.

Phrases

Meaning:- have a fight on your hands, a fight for life/survival

Sentences:-

  • Opposition leaders know that they have got a strong fight on their hands.
  • The company’s desperate fight for survival in a cut-throat world.
  • He knew he had a strong fight on his hands if he was to remain headmaster.
  • More than 20% of people are fighting for their survival in rural areas.
  • She is fighting for her life.

Using collections make your IELTS more meaningful and easy to read for the examiner. It also shows your versatility and learning, reading, and writing skills as well.

So, prepare for IELTS using the given information and score best in your IELTS. We hope this information will prove fruitful to you and you will get your dream score. So do practice, don't be afraid of hard work.


 

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