Fill in the blanks.
1. He eats nothing ………………. burgers.
But can mean except after words like all, none, nothing, any etc.
2. Can you ………………………… the car to the service center tomorrow?
Take is used for movements to places where neither the speaker nor the listener is.
3. Shaheen has agreed to ……………………………. her camera.
We use bring for movement to a place where the speaker or the listener will be.
4. I always ………………………….. before I go to bed.
Bathe means to take a bath.
5. I felt …………………………….. I was fainting.
As if and as though mean the same. We use them to talk about what a situation seems like.
6. You can stay in my apartment …………………………….. we split the rent.
All of these expressions are used to state conditions.
7. She said that she would bring along ………………………………
The articles cannot be used with possessives. Instead we use a structure with ‘a …. of mine/yours/hers etc.’
8. This is my phone. Where is ………………………………?
9. She lived …………………………….. in a small town.
The correct expression is determiner + whole + noun.
10. It took two times ………………………… .. I had expected.
11. Each of us ……………………………… problems.
A verb after each of is usually singular; however, it can be plural in a more informal style.
12. …………………………….. bad health, she quit her job.
Answers
1. He eats nothing but / except burgers.
2. Can you take the car to the service center tomorrow?
3. Shaheen has agreed to bring her camera.
4. I always bathe before I go to bed.
5. I felt as if / as though I was fainting.
6. You can stay in my apartment as long as/ so long as / on condition that we split the rent.
7. She said that she would bring along a friend of hers.
8. This is my phone. Where is yours?
9. She lived her whole life in a small town.
10. It took two times as long as / longer than I had expected.
11. Each of us has problems. 12. Due to / Owing to/ Because of bad health, she quit her job.
