Vicious Vocab
Relative Problems
Conditionally True
Wish Upon a Star
100

Fill in the blank:

To this day, James continues to _____________ his dream of musical theater.

Pursue (work on, stick with)

100

Which relative pronoun is used to describe people?

Who

100

2nd Conditional talks about:

a. A true fact

b. An unreal situation in the present or future

c. An unreal situation in the past

B - Unreal in the present or future

100

What phrase means the same thing as "I wish"?

"If Only"

200

Someone committed ________ against me and managed to spend $12,000 on my credit card!

Fraud


200

Boston is the city __________ I live.

Where

200

3rd Conditional

If I __________________ (study) harder, I _____________ (pass) the test.

had studied, would have passed

200

I want to have studied harder in Highschool.

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I wish __________________

I wish I had studied harder in Highschool

300

Fill in the Blank:

I feel terrible! I think I have __________ with the flu!

come down

300

List all relative pronouns that fit in the blank:

I am the teacher __________ forgets everything

Who, That


300

3rd conditional CANNOT be used to:

a. Talk about mistakes made in the past

b. Talk about problems from the past that are still happening now

c. Talk about things you didn't do that you wanted to do.

B - The third conditional cannot talk about things in the present

300

Write the following as a wish:

My mom didn't teach me Yiddish as a kid, but I want to speak it :(

I wish my mom had taught me Yiddish as a kid

400

I slipped and fell while hiking and ________ my back. Now I can't bend over without pain.

Strained

400

Combine the two sentences:

Approach marked the students present. The students were sick.

Approach marked the students who were sick present

400

Write the following as a conditional:

I want to buy a nice house in Brookline, but I don't have a million dollars.

If I had a million dollars, I would buy a nice house in brookline

400

Write the following as a wish:

I really want it to stop raining so I can go to the beach tomorrow

I wish it would stop raining so I could go to the beach tomorrow

500

I am trying to _________ a little money _________ every month to buy a small apartment

put, aside

500

Combine the two sentences:

I am in love with the man. He is in love with Jason Momoa.

The man who I love is in love with Jason Momoa.

500

Write the following as a conditional:

I didn't work hard at work, so I didn't get a raise or promotion

If I had worked harder at work, I would have gotten a raise

500

Write the following as a wish:

I wasn't informed about the meeting by my boss, so I missed it and was fired.

I wish I had been informed about the meeting by my boss

I wish my boss had informed me about the meeting

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