Fill in the blanks with an appropriate phrase that will make the sentence grammatically correct.
1. Will you ........................................ dollars in this hour of need?
Correct!
Wrong!
2. ................................................. understand anything he says.
Correct!
Wrong!
3. Where ............................................ I lent you?
Correct!
Wrong!
4. ........................................................ for well over twenty years, I am reluctant to move to another city.
Correct!
Wrong!
5. The boy complained of .................................................... by his step-mother.
Correct!
Wrong!
Answers
1. a) lend me a few dollars
2. b) Half of his students don’t
3. d) No improvement is needed (When we talk about amounts and quantities, we usually use singular determiners, verbs and pronouns.)
4. a) Since I have been living in Bangalore
5. b) having been tortured
