TIME MACHINE
Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb:
I ______ (know) Sarah since we were children.
have known
Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb:
If I ______ (be) you, I wouldn't tell him yet.
were
Change the sentence into the passive:
Someone stole my bike yesterday.
My bike was stolen yesterday.
Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb:
I really enjoy ______ (meet) new people.
meeting
Complete the sentence with the correct quantifier:
There are ______ reasons why people move abroad.
many
Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb:
By the time we arrived, the film ______ (start).
had started
Complete the zero conditional:
If you heat ice, it ______ (melt).
melts
Join the two sentences using a relative clause:
That's the woman. Her son won the competition.
That's the woman whose son won the competition.
Complete the sentence using the correct English form of the word in brackets:
She speaks English ______. (fliessend)
fluently
Complete the sentence with the correct prepositions:
She's very good ______ dealing ______ difficult customers.
at / with
Complete the sentence with the most appropriate future form:
This time next Friday, we ______ (fly) to New York.
will be flying
Rewrite the situation as a conditional sentence:
I didn't set an alarm, so I overslept.
If I had set an alarm, I wouldn't have overslept.
Emma said this to me on Monday:
“I haven't seen your brother here since I bought this house last year.”
Report what Emma said. Make all necessary changes to the tense, pronouns, determiner and time/place expressions.
Emma told me on Monday that she hadn't seen my brother there since she had bought that house the year before.
Also acceptable: ...since she bought that house the year before.
Complete both gaps with the correct form of the verb:
He promised ______ (help) me, but he ended up ______ (forget) all about it.
to help / forgetting
Report the sentence using the reporting verb WARN:
“Don't touch that button!” he said to me.
He warned me not to touch that button.
Complete the sentence with the correct forms of the verbs:
When I will have finished the report, I'll send it to you.
When I have finished the report, I'll send it to you.
Explanation: We normally use a present tense, not will, in a future time clause introduced by when.
Use a modal verb + have + past participle to make a deduction about the past:
I'm almost certain Tom didn't write this email. The style is completely different.
Tom can't have written this email.
Also acceptable: Tom couldn't have written this email.
Rewrite the sentence using a passive reporting structure. Begin with The painting...
People believe that the painting was stolen during the war.
The painting is believed to have been stolen during the war.
Explain the difference in meaning between these two sentences:
Find and correct all the grammatical mistakes:
Despite of having very few informations, she managed to complete the report.
Despite having very little information, she managed to complete the report.
Corrections:
despite of → despite
few → little
informations → information
Complete the sentence with the correct forms of the verbs:
By the end of next month, she ______ (work) on the project for exactly two years, although nobody ______ (expect) it to take this long when it began.
Answer:
will have been working / expected
Complete this mixed conditional with the correct forms. Then explain why two different time references are needed.
If she ______ (take) that job in London three years ago, she ______ (live) there now.
If she had taken that job in London three years ago, she would be living / would live there now.
Explanation: The unreal condition refers to the past, but its hypothetical consequence refers to the present.
Rewrite the following information as one sentence. Use a non-defining relative clause and a passive reporting structure.
They renovated the old theatre last year.
My grandfather used to work there.
People believe it was built in 1895.
The old theatre, where my grandfather used to work, was renovated last year and is believed to have been built in 1895.
Complete the sentence with the correct forms. Then explain why a different verb pattern is used after regret in each case.
I regret ______ (tell) you that your application was unsuccessful, but I regret ______ (not prepare) more carefully for my own interview last year.
I regret to tell you that your application was unsuccessful, but I regret not preparing / not having prepared more carefully for my own interview last year.
Explanation:
regret + to-infinitive = being sorry about something you are about to say or do.
regret + -ing = being sorry about something that has already happened.
Find and correct all the grammatical mistakes:
If I would have known that there was so little people attending the meeting, I wouldn't have insisted on to come.
If I had known that there were so few people attending the meeting, I wouldn't have insisted on coming.
Corrections:
would have known → had known
was → were
little people → few people
insisted on to come → insisted on coming