Inversion and emphasis
Relative clauses
Prepositions
Conditionals and reported speech
Phrasal verbs
100

That looks like Carrie. .......… it is!

So

100

The train, .......... was already an hour late, broke down again.

which

100

The book is .......… the table.

on

100

“The package will be delivered on the 5th of May”.

The delivery service told me that my package would be delivered on the 5th of May.

100

The attack was .......… successfully. (complete a plan, carry)

carried out

200

It is by no .......… certain that the chancellor will attend the meeting.

means

200

There is hardly a moment .......... I don’t think of you, Ursula.

when

200

She walked .......… the park.

through

200

I would gladly visit you .......… the hundreds of exams I’m about to have I can’t.

but for

200

The play quite .......… my expectations. (reach an expected standard, live)

lived up to

1000

It’s .......… nonsense, if you ask me.

utter

1000

.......... I’d like is a nice cold drink.

What

1000

We sat .......… the tree during the picnic.

under

1000

the weather gets warmer, we won’t go to the beach.

Unless

1000

The evidence just doesn’t .......… . (make sense, add)

add up

2000

.......… sooner had one missing child been found, than another two disappeared.

No

2000

Maud is the only member of the gang .......... identity has remained a secret.

whose

2000

The cat jumped .......… the counter before dinner.

onto

2000

If it .......… for the protestants there wouldn’t have been any changes.

hadn’t been

2000

Don’t be ..... (deceive, take) by her apparent shyness.

taken in

10000

The sea was so rough that .......… the experienced sailors were seasick.

even

10000

.......... he spoke to last was probably the person who murdered him.

Whoever

10000

He arrived late .......… the traffic .......… the highway.

because of, on

10000

“I saw Martha going to the cinema”.

He said that he had seen Martha going to the cinema.

10000

This document .......… all the Union demands. (give details in writing, set)

sets out

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