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General Grammar Exercise

October 5, 2020 - pdf

Fill in the blanks.

1. I would have been in bad trouble if she ………………….. me.

Correct! Wrong!

In the third conditional we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.

2. Would you mind getting ……………… my foot?

Correct! Wrong!

3. You can take anything you …………………..

Correct! Wrong!

When both clauses refer to the future, we use a present tense in the subordinate clause to refer to future.

4. I knew she ………………….. arrive before long.

Correct! Wrong!

When the verb in the main clause is in the past tense, the verb in the subordinate clause too will be in the past tense.

5. ……………………. she drove, she could not catch them.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

Fronted adjectives/adverbs are possible in a structure with as or though.

6. The picnic was ……………………..

Correct! Wrong!

Fun usually goes after is.

7.Only after her death …………………….. able to understand her.

Correct! Wrong!

Inversion is used when a sentence starts with only or hardly or seldom.

8. Hardly …………………… arrived when trouble started.

Correct! Wrong!

Inversion is used when a sentence starts with only or hardly or seldom.

9. ‘I don’t like salmon.’ ‘……………….. do I.’

Correct! Wrong!

After a negative statement, we can add another negative statement with neither/nor.

10. As soon as they heard the gun shot, the birds …………………… away.

Correct! Wrong!

Flew is the past tense of fly.

11. Those who know the answer should …………………… their hand.

Correct! Wrong!

Rise is intransitive; raise is transitive.

12. That is the last message he ……………………… from me.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

Present and future tenses are possible after this is the last...

Answers

1. I would have been in bad trouble if she hadn’t helped me.

2. Would you mind getting off my foot?

3. You can take anything you find.

4. I knew she would arrive before long.

5. Fast though/as she drove, she could not catch them.

6. The picnic was fun.

7.Only after her death was I able to understand her.

8. Hardly had I arrived when trouble started.

9. ‘I don’t like salmon.’ ‘Neither do I.’

10. As soon as they heard the gun shot, the birds flew away.

11. Those who know the answer should raise their hand.

12. That is the last message he gets / will get from me.

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