Tenses
Rewrite in past perfect continuous:
"They train every day."
They had been training every day.
Fill the blank:
He insisted ___ paying the full amount.
on
Give the plural form:
"corpus"
corpora (also acceptable: corpuses)
Give the past tense of the irregular verb “to abide” (formal/literary).
abode (also: abided)
Give the correct tag question:
"Nothing can stop him now, ___ ?"
can it?
Correct the tense:
"By the time she arrives, we ate."
By the time she arrives, we will have eaten.
Choose the correct preposition:
"She is proficient ___ written English."
in
Give the plural form:
"ellipsis"
ellipses
Give the past participle of “to smite” (biblical English).
smitten
Correct the tag question (very advanced):
"Let's not argue, ___ ?"
shall we?
Transform into reported speech (tense shift required):
He said: "I am finishing my work."
He said he was finishing his work.
Complete:
"The results are dependent ___ several external factors."
on
Give the singular form:
"media"
medium
Provide the archaic past tense of “to thrive”.
(NOT the modern regular “thrived”.)
throve
Explain why NO inversion is possible here:
"The fact that he lied surprises me."
(Form a question.)
Because “the fact that…” is a nominal clause → not interrogative → no inversion possible.
Choose the correct tense:
"If you ___ (to have) told me earlier, I would have helped."
had
Advanced preposition:
"The manager was surprised ___ how well the team performed."
at
Give the plural form:
"formula" (scientific/academic)
formulae (also: formulas)
Give the double past tense forms of “to dive”
(standard American vs. traditional British).
US: dived
UK (traditional): dove
Give the correct negative question form:
"Why ___ he help us?" (expressing surprise)
Why didn’t he help us?
Rewrite using a future perfect continuous:
"Tomorrow, it will be exactly one year that he works here."
Tomorrow, he will have been working here for one year.
Choose the correct preposition:
"He was accused ___ violating the confidentiality agreement."
of
Give the plural form:
"matrix"
matrices
Give the original strong verb paradigm for “to help”
(old English → archaic trace still used in dialects):
help — ___ — ___.
help — holp — holpen
Identify the grammatical phenomenon:
"Hardly had he arrived when the phone rang."
Negative adverb fronting triggering subject–auxiliary inversion.