Causative Verbs
Complete: “She ___ her shoes cleaned before the wedding.”
(Answer: had)
Turn into passive: “They delivered the packages yesterday.”
(Answer: The packages were delivered yesterday.)
What does “break the ice” mean in a social context?
(Answer: To start a conversation and make people feel more comfortable.)
What tense is this: “He has lived in Spain since 2010”?
(Answer: Present perfect)
“No matter how hardly he tried, he couldn’t win.”
(Answer: “hardly” → “hard”)
Rewrite with a causative: “A professional photographer took our family photo.”
(Answer: We had our family photo taken by a professional photographer.)
Change this sentence into the passive:
“They were watching the movie when the lights went out.”
Answer:
“The movie was being watched when the lights went out.”
What’s a more advanced synonym for “very important”?
(Answer: Crucial / Vital / Essential)
Correct this sentence:
“She was waiting when he arrives.”
(Answer: She was waiting when he arrived.)
“She said me she was feeling unwell.”
(Answer: “said me” → “told me”)
What’s the difference in meaning between:
“We had the house painted” vs. “We painted the house”?
(Answer: First means someone else did it for us; second means we did it ourselves.)
Turn into passive: “They are going to announce the results tomorrow.”
(Answer: The results are going to be announced tomorrow.)
Use “to come up with” in a professional or creative sentence.
(Example: She came up with a great idea for the campaign.)
Choose the correct form:
“If I ___ (know) you were coming, I would have baked a cake.”
(Answer: had known)
“Neither the teachers nor the student have handed in the report.”
(Answer: “have” → “has”)
Create a sentence using get in a causative form to describe having a legal document translated.
(Example: I got the contract translated into English.)
Choose the correct passive form:
“If the law changes, new rules ___ (implement / will be implemented).”
(Answer: will be implemented)
What does “to take something with a grain of salt” mean?
(Answer: To not take it completely seriously or literally.)
Rewrite this using future perfect:
“She finishes the report by Friday.”
(Answer: She will have finished the report by Friday.)
“Scarcely had he left the office when he has remembered the documents.”
(Answer: “has remembered” → “remembered”)
Identify and correct the mistake:
“He made me to do the project again.”
(Answer: “to do” → “do” — He made me do the project again.)
Rewrite using a passive causative:
“The manager asked someone to repair her laptop.”
(Answer: The manager had her laptop repaired.)
Define “meticulous” and use it in a formal sentence.
(Answer: Very careful and precise; e.g., The editor was meticulous in checking every detail.)
Identify the tense and its function:
“She had been working all night before the power went out.”
(Answer: Past perfect continuous; to describe an ongoing action before a past event.)
“Being a vegetarian, the soup wasn’t suitable for her diet.”
(Answer: Misplaced modifier — should be: “The soup wasn’t suitable for her diet because she was a vegetarian.”)