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General Grammar Exercise

October 18, 2020 - pdf

Fill in the blanks.

1. Are you not ashamed ……………………?

Correct! Wrong!

Ashamed is used with of; the reflexive pronoun is used when the subject and the object refer to the same person.

2. When we lived in Bangalore, we …………………….. go out every evening.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

Both would and used to can be used to talk about past habits.

3. The room was ............................. dark that I couldn’t see anything.

Correct! Wrong!

Note the pattern so...that

4. …………………….. had I finished reading one book, when I started another.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

5. ………………… he was suffering from fever, he didn’t go out.

Correct! Wrong!

As is used to give the reason.

6. This is the house …………………… he lives.

Correct! Wrong!

Where means in which.

7. He asked me …………………….. I had finished.

Correct! Wrong!

Both if and whether can be used to introduce an indirect question.

8. Iron as well as coal ……………………… found in India.

Correct! Wrong!

When we connect two singular nouns with as well as, the verb should be singular.

9. He has been learning English ………………………. 5 years.

Correct! Wrong!

We use for with duration.

10. Even if you invited him, he ……………………….. come.

Correct! Wrong!

In the second conditional, we use a simple past in the if-clause and would + infinitive in the main clause.

11. ……………………. the cops, the thieves ran away.

Correct! Wrong!

12. If I were the Prime Minister, I ………………........... capital punishment.

Correct! Wrong!

In the second conditional, we use a simple past tense in the if-clause and would + first form of the verb in the main clause.

Answers

1. Are you not ashamed of yourself?

2. When we lived in Bangalore, we used to go out every evening.

3. The room was so dark that I couldn’t see anything.

4. Hardly had I finished reading one book, when I started another.

5. As he was suffering from fever, he didn’t go out.

6. This is the house where he lives.

7. He asked me if / whether I had finished.

8. Iron as well as coal is found in India.

9. He has been learning English for 5 years.

10. Even if you invited him, he would not come.

11. Seeing the cops, the thieves ran away.

12. If I were the Prime Minister, I would abolish capital punishment.

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