Test your understanding of grammar rules and sentence patterns with this interactive grammar exercise.
Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word or phrase.
1. ………………….. quick results when you start learning a language.
Negative imperatives are made with do not + infinitive without to.
2. You seldom work on Saturdays, ………………….?
Clauses with words like seldom, hardly, little, and few have a negative sense. Affirmative question tags are used after them.
3. There is little point in doing anything about it, ……………..?
Clauses with words like seldom, hardly, little, and few have a negative sense. Affirmative question tags are used after them.
4. He has few reasons for staying, ……………….?
Clauses with words like seldom, hardly, little, and few have a negative sense. Affirmative question tags are used after them.
5. I ...................... the flowers. Just after I finished it started raining.
We use the structure ‘needn’t have’ to mean that something was unnecessary.
6. She is …………………. a great dancer than I am.
We use ‘no more’ with nouns to talk about quantity or degree.
7. .....................… wished me a happy birthday.
Please select 2 correct answers
No one cannot be followed by of. The other two options are possible here.
8. Mother suggested ………………….. a dentist.
Please select 2 correct answers
Suggest cannot be followed by object + infinitive.
9. I didn’t ask …………….. for the meal.
Some verbs are followed by object + infinitive.
10. After putting it off many times, we ………………. managed to have a holiday in France.
Finally suggests that we have been waiting a long time for something.
11. We made many different plans for our holiday, but …………………. we went to Malaysia again.
We use in the end to suggest that something happens after a lot of problems or uncertainty.
12. A declarative sentence has a full stop …………………
At the end means position at the end of something.
Answers
1. Do not expect quick results when you start learning a language.
2. You seldom work on Saturdays, do you?
3. There is little point in doing anything about it, is there?
4. He has few reasons for staying, has he?
5. I needn’t have watered the flowers. Just after I finished it started raining.
6. She is no more a great dancer than I am.
7. None of my friends / not one of my friends wished me a happy birthday.
8. Mother suggested seeing / that I should see a dentist.
9. I didn’t ask you to pay for the meal.
10. After putting it off many times, we finally managed to have a holiday in France.
11. We made many different plans for our holiday, but in the end we went to Malaysia again.
12. A declarative sentence has a full stop at the end.
