A little help with these sentences. Verb-noun collocations She is CONSUMING an insane QUANTITY of medicines. They will do no good to her! When he was about to answer the last question, the TIME had b

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A little help with these sentences. Verb-noun collocations She is CONSUMING an insane QUANTITY of medicines. They will do no good to her! When he was about to answer the last question, the TIME had been CONSUMED. As an avid reader, I DEVOUR every BOOK I get into my hands. A real journalist must DEVOUR the NEWS every morning if they want to climb the ladder of this career. I am not the kind of person who RELISHES CHALLENGES. I feel safer inside my comfort zone. Stop RELISHING the THOUGHTS about what might happen in the future and pay attention to what you are doing at this moment. I know it looks like a bitter PILL to SWALLOW now, but you will thank me some day. You are being extremely childish, SWALLOW your PRIDE and apologize to her, for God's sake! **I appreciate every type of correction, either the collocations, the style, or any mistake I might've made.

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A little help with these sentences. Verb-noun collocations

She is CONSUMING an insane QUANTITY of medicines. They will do no good to her!
She is taking an insane amount of medicine. They will do her no good!

When he was about to answer the last question, the TIME had been CONSUMED.
When he was about to answer the last question, the time was up. (In English the word CONSUMED is not used for time.)

As an avid reader, I DEVOUR every BOOK I get into my hands.
As an avid reader, I devour every book I can get my hands on.
A real journalist must DEVOUR the NEWS every morning if they want to climb the ladder of this career.
A real journalist must devour the news every morning if they want to climb the ladder (or if they want to get ahead)
I am not the kind of person who RELISHES CHALLENGES. I feel safer inside my comfort zone.
Correct
Stop RELISHING the THOUGHTS about what might happen in the future and pay attention to what you are doing at this moment.
CORRECTION: When you RELISH a thought in English it is about something good or happy or that you hope will happen. We might say in English: Stop focusing on (or thinking about) what might happen in the future and pay attention to what you are doing at this moment. The way you wrote the sentence it sounded like you were telling someone not to worry.

I know it looks like a bitter PILL to SWALLOW now, but you will thank me some day.
We would probably say in English "I know it seems, instead of look. The rest of the sentence is good!
You are being extremely childish, SWALLOW your PRIDE and apologize to her, for God's sake!
Correct.

Hello, your English is good. Bravo!

**I appreciate every type of correction, either the collocations, the style, or any mistake I might've made.

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