This grammar exercise tests your understanding of basic grammar rules and structures.
1. She ……………………….. red and ran out of the room.
Turn is common before color words. It is used to talk about visible changes of state.
2. Alice is the person ………………………… keeps a deer in the garden shed.
We use who to refer to people.
3. A deer is …………………………. Alice keeps in the garden shed.
4. The baby’s eyes are not at all the same color ………………………… yours.
We can use the structure same …as to say that people or things are similar.
5. She looks ……………………. older than her daughter.
We can use no to modify a comparative word.
6. I haven’t seen him ………………………… ages.
We use for to indicate duration.
7. Samuel and ………………………. decided to split up.
Contractions are not normally written with double subjects.
8. The village ……………………….. I live is very beautiful.
Where can mean that…in.
9. If you have already had measles, you are unlikely to get …………………………… again.
The names of illnesses are usually uncountable in English and hence we use singular pronouns to refer back to them.
10. I have difficulty …………………………… dates.
The preposition ‘in’ can be dropped out after difficulty.
11. My grandfather is eighty-five but he still enjoys ……………………….. health.
Health is an uncountable noun. We cannot use an article with it.
12. Have you bought the …………………………?
Although groceries is an uncountable noun, it has no singular form.
Answers
1. She turned red and ran out of the room.
2. Alice is the person who keeps a deer in the garden shed.
3. A deer is what Alice keeps in the garden shed.
4. The baby’s eyes are not at all the same color as yours.
5. She looks no older than her daughter.
6. I haven’t seen him for ages.
7. Samuel and I have decided to split up.
8. The village where I live is very beautiful.
9. If you have already had measles, you are unlikely to get it again.
10. I have difficulty remembering / in remembering dates.
11. My grandfather is eighty-five but he still enjoys good health.
12. Have you bought the groceries?
