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Gap Filling Exercise

April 28, 2022 - pdf

Fill in the blanks.

1. Everyone we met ………………………….. excited about the event.

Correct! Wrong!

Here the subject is the singular expression everyone.

2. …………………………… cannot be cured must be endured.

Correct! Wrong!

What means that which.

3. Everyone came ……………………………… Peter.

Correct! Wrong!

After words like all, every, everyone, except and except for can both be used.

4. ………………………….. people can claim that they have never lied in life.

Correct! Wrong!

Use few with a plural noun.

5. Have you bought ……………………………..?

Correct! Wrong!

6. Would you like ……………………………. to drink?

Correct! Wrong!

In offers when we expect Yes for an answer, we use some/something.

7. I have hardly done any work …………………………….. Christmas.

Correct! Wrong!

Since shows the starting point.

8. Not …………………………., they got married.

Correct! Wrong!

9. She looks ………………………….. than she actually is.

Correct! Wrong!

10. I hate the thought …………………………….. getting old.

Correct! Wrong!

11. The main reason ……………………………. I don’t trust him is personal.

Correct! Wrong!

12. The man ……………………………… she married is an engineer from Bangalore.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

In an informal style, that can replace whom.

Answers

  1. Everyone we met was excited about the event.
  2. What cannot be cured must be endured.
  3. Everyone came except / except for Peter.
  4. Few people can claim that they have never lied in life.
  5. Have you bought anything?
  6. Would you like something to drink?
  7. I have hardly done any work since Christmas.
  8. Not surprisingly, they got married.
  9. She looks younger than she actually is.
  10. I hate the thought of getting old.
  11. The main reason why I don’t trust him is personal.
  12. The man whom/that she married is an engineer from Bangalore.
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