Mixed Grammar: Lest They Should, Above and Ruffle Feathers Exercise

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1. What you said is unpardonable.
2. They spoke in a low voice lest they should wake the baby.
3. I have invited them to dinner.
4. If you had called her on her birthday, she would have been happy that day.
5. Which of the following words is normally uncountable in standard English? — Accommodation
6. In the sentence “Smoking is injurious to health,” the word “Smoking” is a gerund.
7. There is a cottage on the hillside above the river.
8. Nobody came, did they?
9. Neither fish nor meat agrees with me.
10. To ruffle feathers means to upset people.
11. Choose the best passive form of “Call them at once.” — Let them be called at once.
12. My sister lives abroad permanently.