1She is tired ............... hungry.
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Use "as well as" to add a second adjective; it means "and also".
2I hope you ............... hard in future.
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Use "will work" after "I hope" to talk about a future action.
3Change this sentence into an exclamatory sentence: The stars are very beautiful.
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The correct exclamatory form is "How beautiful the stars are!"
4Speak only words ............... will help others.
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Use "that" to introduce a defining relative clause after "words".
5Change this sentence into the passive voice: We cannot take back spoken words.
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The passive form of "cannot take back" is "Spoken words cannot be taken back."
6He was attacked by a ............... of bees.
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The collective noun for bees is "swarm".
7The pen is ............... than the sword.
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The fixed proverb uses "mightier" in "The pen is mightier than the sword."
8The farmer owns six ...............
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The irregular plural of "ox" is "oxen".
9I enjoyed ............... at the party.
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Use the reflexive pronoun "myself" when the subject and object refer to the same person.
10Change this sentence into reported speech: The teacher said to the boy, "You have failed again."
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In reported speech, the correct form is "The teacher told the boy that he had failed again."
11If you write legibly, you ............... good marks.
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In the first conditional, use "will get" in the main clause.
12You had better ............... with fire.
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After "had better", use the base form "stop playing".
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- She is tired as well as hungry.
- I hope you will work hard in future.
- Change this sentence into an exclamatory sentence: The stars are very beautiful. — How beautiful the stars are!
- Speak only words that will help others.
- Change this sentence into the passive voice: We cannot take back spoken words. — Spoken words cannot be taken back.
- He was attacked by a swarm of bees.
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- The farmer owns six oxen.
- I enjoyed myself at the party.
- Change this sentence into reported speech: The teacher said to the boy, “You have failed again.” — The teacher told the boy that he had failed again.
- If you write legibly, you will get good marks.
- You had better stop playing with fire.