Reported Speech
Direct Speech: "I am hungry," said Tom. Choose the correct reported speech form:
A) Tom said that he is hungry.
B) Tom said that he was hungry.
C) Tom says that he was hungry.
D) Tom told that he was hungry.
B) Tom said that he was hungry.
Which phrasal verb means to start a journey? Example: We need to _______ early to avoid the traffic.
A) Get in
B) Look for
C) Set off
D) Turn up
C) Set off
Complete the sentence with the correct preposition: "She is very interested ____ photography."
A) in
B) on
C) at
D) about
A) in
Identify the Zero Conditional sentence (used for general truths/facts):
A) If it rains, I will stay home.
B) If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.
C) If you heat ice, it melts.
D) If I had studied, I would have passed.
C) If you heat ice, it melts.
Complete the sentence using the correct verb form: "I enjoy ____ to music."
A) to listen
B) listening
C) listen
D) listened
B) listening
Direct Speech: "I'll help you with the project tomorrow," Sarah said to me. Choose the correct reported speech version:
A) Sarah said me she will help me with the project tomorrow.
B) Sarah told me she helps me with the project the following day.
C) Sarah told me she would help me with the project the next day.
D) Sarah told that she would help me with the project the next day.
C) Sarah told me she would help me with the project the next day.
Complete the sentence with the correct phrasal verb: "The meeting was ________ until next Friday because the manager was ill."
A) put out
B) called off
C) taken over
D) put off
D) put off
Choose the correct prepositional phrase: "Despite the bad weather, they insisted ________ going for a hike."
A) in
B) on
C) for
D) to
B) on
Choose the correct Second Conditional form for a hypothetical situation: "If I ________ more time, I ________ a musical instrument."
A) have / will learn
B) had / would learn
C) had / will learn
D) would have / learned
B) had / would learn
Identify the correct verb form for the sentence: "She suggested ________ a taxi to the airport."
A) taking
B) to take
C) take
D) to taking
A) taking
Reported Speech: Reporting Mixed Direct Speech:"If I had known you were coming, I would have baked a cake," she said to him. Choose the most accurate reported version:
A) She told him that if she knew he was coming, she would have baked a cake.
B) She told him that had she known he was coming, she would have baked a cake.
C) She remarked that if she had known he had been coming, she would bake a cake.
D) She said to him that if she would have known he was coming, she had baked a cake
B) She told him that had she known he was coming, she would have baked a cake.
Phrasal Verbs: Professional Contexts The CEO decided to ________ the details of the merger until the official press release.
A) gloss over
B) hold with
C) play down
D) hold over
He finally managed to prevail ________ his opponent after a long and grueling debate.
A) over
B) against
C) on
D) with
A) over
Conditionals: Mixed Conditionals. Select the correct form: "If I ________ my keys this morning, I ________ inside the house right now instead of waiting on the porch."
A) didn't lose / would be
B) hadn't lost / would have been
C) wouldn't have lost / will be
D) hadn't lost / would be
D) hadn't lost / would be
Which sentence suggests that the speaker stopped one action in order to start another?
A) On the way home, I stopped to buy some milk.
B) On the way home, I stopped buying milk.
C) On the way home, I had stopped buying milk.
D) On the way home, I was stopping to buy some milk.
A) On the way home, I stopped to buy some milk.
Reported Speech Direct: "I have been waiting for hours," he complained. Reported: He complained that he __________ been waiting for hours.
Had
Phrasal Verbs The company had to __________ off the launch of the new product until the software bugs were fixed.
put
Prepositions The judge’s decision was perfectly __________ keeping with the legal precedents established in previous years.
in
If you __________ told me you were struggling with the workload, I would be helping you right now.
had
I really regret __________(tell) him my secret, as now the whole office seems to know about it.
telling
When we report what someone said later, we usually move the tense one step back or what we call ________.
backshifts
Explain what take off means in the given examples.
The plane is scheduled to take off at 8:00 PM tonight.
Her career as a photographer really started to take off after she won the national award.
To leave the ground
To become successful
Explain the difference between the prepositions in, on, and at.
at (exact time), on (days), in (long periods example in)
What is the sentence structure of second conditionals?
if + past simple + would + verb
What are the patterns in verb infinitives
Verb + to infinitives
Verb + bare infinitives (no to)
Verb + -ing
Verb + object + to infinitives
Verb + ‘that’ clause