Complete the following sentences.
1............... surprisingly, we missed the train.
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Use "Not" (not "No") to negate an adverb such as "surprisingly". "Not surprisingly" means "as you might expect"; the rest of the sentence stays affirmative.
2I can see you tomorrow, but ............... on Tuesday.
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Use "not" to make the phrase "on Tuesday" negative.
3Let me know if you have ............... trouble.
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Use "any" in this conditional sentence after "if".
4............... people have ever seen her laugh.
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Use "Few" with the plural countable noun "people".
5Is she here ...............?
Select 2 answers.
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Both "yet" and "already" can complete this question naturally, with different meanings.
6He denied that he had ............... seen her.
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Use "ever" after "denied" to mean "at any time" without a double negative.
7............... you say, I won't believe you.
Select 2 answers.
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Both "No matter what" and "Whatever" mean that the result will not change.
8I ............... support the conservative party.
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Use "no longer" to say that something was true before but is not true now.
9............... are going to be rainy.
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Use "The next few days" for a short period of several days starting now.
10............... was there.
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Use "Neither of my parents" when talking about two parents and saying not one of them was there.
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- Not surprisingly, we missed the train.
- I can see you tomorrow, but not on Tuesday.
- Let me know if you have any trouble.
- Few people have ever seen her laugh.
- Is she here yet / already?
- He denied that he had ever seen her.
- No matter what / Whatever you say, I won’t believe you.
- I no longer support the conservative party.
- The next few days are going to be rainy.
- Neither of my parents was there.