Object

• poverty: You believe you can tackle poverty in Ethiopia in 15 years?

• exclusion: The scope of informal employment strategies to tackle social exclusion needs to be examined.

• problem: We should be reaching out to people who expect us to do things to tackle the social problems of our country.

Preposition: on

• edge: Mustoe made a rather silly tackle on the edge of the box, leaving his trailing leg out for Ben Fitch to fly over.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• such: We work with a range of agencies in Cumbria to act quickly to tackle issues such as these.

Adjective complement

• homophobic: At least one teacher in every school should undergo training which includes how to tackle homophobic bullying.

• illegal: The move follows the commitment made by G8 leaders last weekend to do more to tackle illegal logging.

Modifying Another Word

• effectively: The Depression sparked off problems, which the Weimar constitution and Treaty of Versailles prevented the government from using methods to effectively tackle.

• successfully: The above guidelines are very useful in every situation in life and you can successfully tackle hostile circumstances by following them.

• bravely: But aside from this, the book provides some wonderful insights and bravely tackles some contentious issues.

• late: Referee Rowan Kitt had handed out the first yellow card to Dominic Jones for a late tackle in the 24th minute.

Modifies a noun

• bag: Rather than load yourself down, make room for a camera in your tackle bag and get out and explore the miles of shoreline.

Used with why or when

• which: Float fishing is by far the best method although please be sensible when it comes to end tackle which must be strong.

Present participle complement

• bully: Back-up looks at a new report on the problem and at efforts to tackle bullying.

• rise: Other changes highlighted by the survey include a rise in friends buying together to tackle rising property prices.