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General Grammar Exercise

January 9, 2022 - pdf

Fill in the blanks.

1. What she said ………………………. not true.

Correct! Wrong!

2. Nobody …………………….. there to help him.

Correct! Wrong!

Nobody is followed by a singular verb.

3. Nobody called, …………………………..?

Correct! Wrong!

Nobody is a negative word; hence, it is followed by an affirmative tag.

4. Everyone of them ………………………….. arrived.

Correct! Wrong!

Use a singular verb after every and everyone.

5. That was ………………………….. not the right thing to do.

Correct! Wrong!

6. ……………………………. you did cannot be justified.

Correct! Wrong!

7. The thing …………………………… happened next shocked us.

Correct! Wrong!

As a relative pronoun that can refer to things.

8. He ………………………………. to the market. He should be here soon.

Correct! Wrong!

The present perfect is used here because he is still in the market.

9. The milkman has already …………………………..

Correct! Wrong!

Has been is used to talk about a finished action. The milkman has already been means the milkman came and went.

10. Jack London is regarded ………………………….. one of the best American novelists.

Correct! Wrong!

11. Considered ………………………….. a whole, the movie wasn’t bad.

Correct! Wrong!

12. Clever …………………………. she was, she couldn’t solve the puzzle.

Correct! Wrong!

Clever as she was and clever though she was both mean 'though she was clever'.

Answers

  1. What she said is not true.
  2. Nobody was there to help him.
  3. Nobody called, did they?
  4. Every one of them has arrived.
  5. That was certainly not the right thing to do.
  6. What you did cannot be justified.
  7. The thing that happened next shocked us.
  8. He has gone to the market. He should be here soon.
  9. The milkman has already been.
  10. Jack London is regarded as one of the best American novelists.
  11. Considered as a whole, the movie wasn’t bad.
  12. Clever though / as she was, she couldn’t solve the puzzle.
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