Collocations for IELTS Word Story

It is essential for the candidates to learn Collocations while preparing for the IELTS examination. Collocations are part of IELTS since understanding collocations make one sound more like native speakers. They are useful in developing a better vocabulary which is essential for every student who aspires to score well and study abroad. Developing a better understanding of the Collocations will help the candidates in IELTS writing and earn better bands in the IELTS examination.

Collocations are two or three connected words that sound significant together, according to the academic collocation list IELTS. For example, we can characterise a party as 'great fun,' but not as 'huge fun,' because it would sound incorrect. Collocations for IELTS are classified according to the parts of speech, such as adverb + adjective, adjective + noun, noun + noun, and so on. Let's look at the list of relevant IELTS collocations for the word 'Story' below.

Collocations for IELTS - ‘Story’
Story as an account of events/ people, true or invented
'Story' as Adjective

1.

Meaning: true, plausible, false, made-up

Sentence: She told the police a false story about being attacked.

2.

Meaning: apocryphal, cock-and-bull, tall

Sentence: No one would believe such a tall story.

3.

Meaning: official

Sentence: The official story was that the singer had broken his arm falling in the shower.

4.

Meaning: wild, convincing, charming, compelling, delightful, dramatic, intriguing, nice, wonderful, amazing, bizarre, colourful, crazy, extraordinary, incredible, strange, inspiring, amusing, entertaining, funny, epic, exciting, fantastic, fascinating, good, great, interesting, outrageous, remarkable, the epic story of a family’s escape from war, complex, elaborate, straightforward, awful, horrific, horrifying, nasty, shocking, terrible, tragic, sorry

Sentence: His life was a sorry story of betrayal and rejection.

5.

Meaning: depressing, heart-rending, moving, poignant, sad, improbable

Sentence: The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.

6.

Meaning: well known, familiar

Sentence: the familiar story of a star who turns to drink and drugs.

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'Story' as a Quant

1.

Meaning: fragment

Sentence: We had difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story.

2.

Meaning: collection

Sentence: a collection of stories by modern writers

'Story' as VERB + STORY

1.

Meaning: read

Sentence: My dad sometimes read me a story at bedtime.

2.

Meaning: write, narrate, recount, relate, tell, embellish, embroider, believe

Sentence: The police didn’t believe her story.

3.

Meaning: stick to

Sentence: We must stick to our story about the accident.

4.

Meaning: change

Sentence: At first he denied everything, but then he changed his story and said it was an accident.

5.

Meaning: swap

Sentence: We swapped stories about our worst teachers.

'Story' as STORY + VERB

1.

Meaning: abound, circulate, get about, go around/ round, spread

Sentence: Stories abound of vandalism and looting. A story was going round that the factory was in line for closure.

2.

Meaning: emerge, begin, open, start

Sentence: The story opens with a man hiding from the police under a woman’s skirt.

3.

Meaning: progress, unfold

Sentence: The motives of the hero become clearer as the story unfolds.

4.

Meaning: end, be called sth, be entitled sth, be set in …

Sentence: The story is set in Poland in the 1930s.

5.

Meaning: be based on sth, concern sth, involve sth, revolve around sth, contain sth, illustrate sth

Sentence: This story illustrates the dangers of living on credit.

'Story' as STORY + NOUN

1.

Meaning: teller - storyteller, telling - storytelling, line storyline

Sentence: His novels always have the same basic storyline.

'Story' as PREP

1.

Meaning: about

Sentence: a story about time travel

2.

Meaning: of

Sentence: the story of the Beatles

'Story' as PHRASES

1.

Meaning: but that’s another story

Sentence: Many years later I returned to Africa but that’s another story (= I am not going to talk about it now).

2.

Meaning: it’s a long story

Sentence: ‘How come you’ve only got one shoe on?’ ‘It’s a long story.’

3.

Meaning: sb’s half/side of the story

Sentence: The teacher punished me without listening to my side of the story.

4.

Meaning: so the story goes, the story goes that …

Sentence: (used to describe what people are saying although it may not be correct) She never saw him again?or so the story goes.

5.

Meaning: the story of my life

Sentence: Out of work with no money? that’s the story of my life.

6.

Meaning: to cut a long story short

Sentence: Anyway, to cut a long story short (= not to give all the details), we had this argument and I haven’t seen him since.

7.

Meaning: a version of a story

Sentence: According to Rachel’s version of the story, they threw the key in the river.

Story as report in a newspaper, etc.

'Story' as an Adjective

1.

Meaning: big, top

Sentence: The biggest story of the day was the signing of the peace agreement. And now back to our top story tonight …

2.

Meaning: exclusive, main, full

Sentence: Full story on page 3.

3.

Meaning: scare

Sentence: scare stories about the harmful effects of the vaccination

4.

Meaning: inside

Sentence: The magazine gives the inside story of life in a rock band.

5.

Meaning: sensational, lurid, sordid, spicy

Sentence: lurid stories of politicians’ sexual adventures

6.

Meaning: cover, front-page, lead

Sentence: The magazine chose the peace process as its cover story.

7.

Meaning: news

Sentence: I have seen a news story this morning.

'Story' as VERB + STORY

1.

Meaning: file, write

Sentence: More than one correspondent filed a story about the incident.

2.

Meaning: carry, print, publish, run

Sentence: Every newspaper carried the story.

'Story' as a Preposition

1.

Meaning: about, of

Sentence: the story of his arrest