Determiners
Fill in with the correct determiner:
“___ of the two solutions seems practical.”
✅ Answer: Neither of
Fill in:
“If I ___ (study) harder, I would have passed the exam.”
✅ Answer: had studied
Transform:
“I have never seen such chaos.”
✅ Answer: “Never have I seen such chaos.”
Fill in:
“I wish I ___ (know) the answer.”
ed the meeting
✅ Answer: knew
Fill in: “She advised me ___ (take) the train.”
✅ Answer: to take
Correct the mistake:
“Neither students came to class yesterday.”
✅ Answer: “Neither of the students came to class yesterday.”
Correct the mistake:
“If she would have told me earlier, I could help her.”
✅ Answer: “If she had told me earlier, I could have helped her.”
Fill in using inversion:
“___ (Rarely / we / witness) such kindness from strangers.”
✅ Answer: Rarely do we witness such kindness from strangers.
Make a sentence with if only about the weather.
✅ Answer: “If only it were sunny today.”
Correct: “He made me to wait outside.”
✅ Answer: “He made me wait outside.” (make doesn’t use to.)
Rewrite the sentence so it keeps the same meaning, using the word in brackets:
All of the candidates failed the test. (None)
Neither of my friends agreed with me. (Both)
✅ Answer:
None of the candidates passed the test.
Both of my friends disagreed with me.
Make a sentence with a third conditional about missing an opportunity.
✅ Answer (sample): “If I had applied for the job, I would have gotten it.”
Correct the mistake:
“Hardly I had started speaking when he interrupted.”
✅ Answer: “Hardly had I started speaking when he interrupted.”
Correct: “I wish I would have studied harder.”
✅ Answer: “I wish I had studied harder.”
Turn into an inversion: “I had never seen such a beautiful view.”
✅ Answer: “Never had I seen such a beautiful view.”
Choose the correct option and explain:
“___ of the information was useful.” (None / Neither)
✅ Answer: None (because information is uncountable, not two separate items).
Transform:
“I didn’t save money, so I’m broke now.” → Use a conditional.
✅ Answer: “If I had saved money, I wouldn’t be broke now.”
Rewrite with inversion:
“We realized the truth only then.”
✅ Answer: “Only then did we realize the truth.”
Make a sentence with rather about choosing tea over coffee.
✅ Answer: “I’d rather have tea than coffee.”
Fill in: “The teacher told us ___ (finish) our homework before class.”
✅ Answer: to finish
Make a sentence with:
Neither of + plural noun
Few / a few (show the difference in meaning)
✅ Answer (sample):
Neither of the books was interesting.
Few people understood the lecture. / A few people understood the lecture.
Explain the difference in meaning:
“If I had studied harder, I would have passed the exam.”
“If I had studied harder, I would pass the exam.”
First = 3rd conditional → past → past. Second = mixed → past → present.
Make your own sentence using
No sooner … than … with inversion.
✅ Answer (sample): “No sooner had the train left than it began to rain.”
Rewrite:
“It’s time we start the meeting.” (Use correct tense.)
✅ Answer: “It’s time we started the meeting.”
Transform into inversion: “We had hardly started when it began to rain.”
✅ Answer: “Hardly had we started when it began to rain.”