Fill in the blanks with an appropriate conjunction.
1............... he is rich, he leads a very simple life.
Wrong!
Use "Although" to introduce a contrast between being rich and living simply.
2The boys cheered loudly ............... they won a trophy.
Wrong!
Use "as if" to compare the boys' cheering to what they would do after winning a trophy.
3............... I was very hungry, I ate all the food.
Wrong!
Use "As" to give the reason why the speaker ate all the food.
4He spoke loudly ............... everyone could hear him.
Wrong!
Use "so that" before a clause to show purpose.
5He is ............... ill that the doctors do not expect him to recover.
Wrong!
Use "so" with "that" to show a result.
6............... you do more work, you cannot have more money.
Wrong!
Use "Unless" to mean if you do not do more work.
7............... he had fallen into the river, he would have drowned.
Wrong!
Use "If" to introduce the unreal past condition.
8He will ............... buy some land or deposit the money in a bank.
Wrong!
Use "either" with "or" to show two possible choices.
9............... we increase our farm output, we will have to import food.
Wrong!
Use "Unless" to mean if we do not increase our farm output.
10............... we heard about the accident, we rushed to the hospital.
Wrong!
Use "As soon as" to show that one action happened immediately after another.
11Hardly had the cricket match begun ............... it started raining.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Use "before" or "when" after "Hardly had" to show that the rain started almost immediately.
Done.
Score: 0/11
Answers
- Although he is rich, he leads a very simple life.
- The boys cheered loudly as if they won a trophy.
- As I was very hungry, I ate all the food.
- He spoke loudly so that everyone could hear him.
- He is so ill that the doctors do not expect him to recover.
- Unless you do more work, you cannot have more money.
- If he had fallen into the river, he would have drowned.
- He will either buy some land or deposit the money in a bank.
- Unless we increase our farm output, we will have to import food.
- As soon as we heard about the accident, we rushed to the hospital.
- Hardly had the cricket match begun before / when it started raining.
