Fill in the blanks.
1Her clothes caught fire ............... she was cooking.
Wrong!
Use "while" to show that two actions happened at the same time.
2............... a bridge has been built over the river, you can reach the town by car.
Wrong!
Use "Now that" to introduce a new situation that explains the result.
3............... we start now, we will miss the train.
Wrong!
Use "Unless" to mean "if not" in this warning.
4............... I had seen the red light, I would have stopped the car.
Wrong!
Use "If" to introduce the condition in this third conditional sentence.
5............... he had seen the red light, he didn’t stop the car.
Wrong!
Use "Though" to connect the surprising contrast between seeing the red light and not stopping.
6............... cold it is, he always goes swimming.
Wrong!
Use "However" before an adjective to mean "no matter how".
7This is the girl ............... paintings were on exhibition in the town hall.
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Use "whose" to show that the paintings belonged to the girl.
8I met a German girl ............... knowledge of Sanskrit impressed me.
Wrong!
Use "whose" to show that the knowledge belonged to the German girl.
9............... she said made no sense to me.
Wrong!
Use "What" to mean "the thing that" as the subject of the sentence.
10We must leave now, ............... it is too late.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Use "for" or "because" to introduce the reason we must leave now.
11He will stay with his parents ............... he gets a good job.
Wrong!
Use "until" to show when his stay with his parents will end.
12............... my job, I went for a walk.
Wrong!
Use "Having finished" to show that the job was completed before the walk.
Answers
- Her clothes caught fire while she was cooking.
- Now that a bridge has been built over the river, you can reach the town by car.
- Unless we start now, we will miss the train.
- If I had seen the red light, I would have stopped the car.
- Though he had seen the red light, he didn’t stop the car.
- However cold it is, he always goes swimming.
- This is the girl whose paintings were on exhibition in the town hall.
- I met a German girl whose knowledge of Sanskrit impressed me.
- What she said made no sense to me.
- We must leave now, for / because it is too late.
- He will stay with his parents until he gets a good job.
- Having finished my job, I went for a walk.
