Conditionals
If he ____________ (miss) another class, he ____________ (not allow) to take his final exam.
misses
will not be allowed
My car isn't here; it must ____________ (steal)
have been stolen
____ population of ____ South Africa is approximately 47 million.
The
-
I __________ (finish) all my exams by the end of June. I can't wait.
will have finished
There are only 4 hours in English which end with the letters 'dous' - Name them all.
Hazardous
Tremendous
Horrendous
Stupendous
You ____________ (be) sorry if you ____________ (not revise) for your exams.
will be
don't revise
The accident happened because the car ____________ (drive) at 170km/h
was being driven
____ Louvre is probably ____ most famous museum in ____ Paris.
The
The
-
Don't phone me between 7:00 and 7:30 as I __________ (put) the children to bed.
will be putting
Each of these words contains a different special or unique characteristic. Name them.
SWIMS
Bookkeepers
Happenchance
CHECKBOOK
Uncopywritable
Rotational symmetry
3 consecutive double letters
Longest word with every letter twice
Reflective symmetry
Longest word with no repeated letters
I ____________ (be) angry at you if you ____________ (eat) my chocolate mousse.
will be
eat
Strong measures must ____________ (take) to reduce the amount of knife crime.
be taken
____ quickest way to get from London to Oxford by ____ car is to take ____ M40.
The
-
the
She apologized for __________ (be) so rude on the phone.
being
All of these sentences have different unique or unusual qualities. Name them.
"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
Contains every letter of the alphabet.
Reads the same forwards and backwards.
Longest grammatical sentence containing only a single word.
I ____________ (not go) out with him, even if you ____________ (pay) me.
would not go
paid
This is an unreal conditional; I'm not accepting it in the present tense.
As soon as we got home, we could see that the front door ____________ (leave) open and there were two men in the living room.
Had been left
____ man was sent to ____ prison for robbing ____ back in London.
A/The
-
a
My parents persuaded me __________ (not take) the job in the USA.
There are 14 punctuation marks in standard English grammar. Name them all.
, Comma
. Full stop (period)
: Colon
; Semi-colon
- Hyphen
- Dash (which is totally a different thing)
? Question mark
! Exclamation mark
[]Square Brackets
()Brackets
{}Braces
" Speech marks
' Apostrophe
... Ellipsis
If I ____________ (know) you were coming, I ____________ (bake) a care.
had known
would have baked
I will accept 'knew' for the first one.
Sarah used ____________ (send) to her room when she was really naughty.
to be sent
My brother loves eating at ____ Mario's. He thinks it is ____ best Italian restaurant in ____ city center.
-
the
the
I wish I __________ (be) a more patient person.
were
(was is technically incorrect - despite being commonly used)
Add punctuation to this sentence to make it grammatical.
James while john had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.