Fill in the blanks.
1The boy looked ...............
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The adjective "pale" describes how the boy looked.
2Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a ............... of water.
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The noun "pail" means a bucket for carrying water.
3He went to ...............
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We normally use "London" without an article.
4The children ............... finished their homework.
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The plural subject "children" takes "have" in the present perfect.
5The dog licked ............... baby.
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The possessive determiner "its" means belonging to it.
6............... raining.
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The contraction "It's" means it is.
7Let’s go ............... train.
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We use "by" to talk about travelling by a form of transport.
8They ............... the cake in the oven.
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The verb "baked" is the natural choice for cooking a cake in an oven.
9The movie was ...............
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The adjective "uninteresting" means not interesting.
10The man ............... his wife to look after their children.
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The verb "told" is followed by an object and an infinitive clause.
Answers
- The boy looked pale
- Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
- He went to London
- The children have finished their homework.
- The dog licked its baby.
- It’s raining.
- Let’s go by train.
- They baked the cake in the oven.
- The movie was uninteresting
- The man told his wife to look after their children.
