This interactive grammar exercise tests your ability to make questions and negatives in English. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb form. Choose your answers from the given options.
1She ............... want to be disturbed while she is working.
Wrong!
Use "does not" with the third-person singular subject in the simple present negative.
2You ............... returned the camera you borrowed from me.
Wrong!
Use "have not" with "you" before the past participle in the present perfect negative.
3Michael ............... speak French.
Wrong!
Use "does not" with a third-person singular subject in the simple present negative.
4Did you ............... the parcel last week?
Wrong!
After "Did", use the base verb "send" in a simple past question.
5They ............... the meeting yesterday.
Wrong!
Use "didn't attend" for a simple past negative with the finished time word "yesterday".
6She buys a lot of things she ............... .
Wrong!
Use "does not want" with the third-person singular subject in a present habit.
7............... you injure yourself while playing football yesterday?
Wrong!
Use "Did" to form a simple past question with "yesterday".
8Where could ............... at this hour of the night?
Wrong!
After the modal "could" in a question, use the subject plus perfect infinitive: "she have gone".
9............... I told you not to be late?
Wrong!
Use "Haven't" to form the present perfect negative question "Haven't I told you...?"
10They ............... tabulated the marks yet.
Wrong!
Use "have not" with the past participle and "yet" in the present perfect negative.
11Have you been ............... for long?
Wrong!
Use the -ing form "waiting" after "have been" in the present perfect continuous.
12Rahul ............... the test in the first attempt.
Wrong!
Use "did not pass" for a completed past result.
Done.
Score: 0/12
Answers
- She does not want to be disturbed while she is working.
- You have not returned the camera you borrowed from me.
- Michael does not speak French.
- Did you send the parcel last week?
- They didn’t attend the meeting yesterday.
- She buys a lot of things she does not want .
- Did you injure yourself while playing football yesterday?
- Where could she have gone at this hour of the night?
- Haven’t I told you not to be late?
- They have not tabulated the marks yet.
- Have you been waiting for long?
- Rahul did not pass the test in the first attempt.
