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Sentence Completion Exercise

August 17, 2021 - pdf

Fill in the blanks.

1. He would have drowned if the rescuers ………………………….. in time.

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 my ………………………. the window?

Correct! Wrong!

3. Take anything you …………………………

Correct! Wrong!

4. I knew that she ……………………… support me.

Correct! Wrong!

Would is the past tense of will.

5. ……………………. I ran, I could not catch up with him.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

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

6. The party was great ……………………..

Correct! Wrong!

Fun usually goes after is.

7.Only after her death …………………….. able to appreciate what she did for me.

Correct! Wrong!

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

8. Hardly …………………… I sat down to rest when the doorbell rang.

Correct! Wrong!

It should be hardly did I sit down or hardly had I sat down.

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

Correct! Wrong!

After a negative remark, we can add another negative remark with 'neither + auxiliary + noun/pronoun.'

10. ……………………….. we heard the gunshots, we rushed upstairs.

Correct! Wrong!

11. Where ……………………. all this while?

Correct! Wrong!

The present perfect indicates time up to now.

12. It was the last message I ……………………….. from him.

Correct! Wrong!

Answers

1. He would have drowned if the rescuers hadn’t arrived in time.

2. Would you mind my opening the window?

3. Take anything you want.

4. I knew that she would support me.

4. I knew she would arrive before long.

5. Fast though / Fast as I ran, I could not catch up with him.

6. The party was great fun.

7.Only after her death was I able to appreciate what she did for me.

8. Hardly had I sat down to rest when the doorbell rang.

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

10. As soon as we heard the gunshots, we rushed upstairs.

11. Where have you been all this while?

12. It was the last message I got from him.

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