Complete the following sentences.
1. Take the umbrella with you in case it ........................
In subordinate clauses we often use a present tense to refer to future.
2. The first time I ............................. there was last year.
We use the simple past to simply state when something happened.
3. This is the village where I was ..........................
Where means the same as in which.
4. She ............................... a couple of months ago.
We cannot use the present perfect tense with a past time expression.
5. This is the man whom we met ..........................
The relative pronoun serves as the subject or object of the relative clause. Hence we do not need another subject or object in the relative clause.
6. I have warned you a ............................. not to do it.
7. I don't think ................................ she is interested in coming.
That can introduce a noun clause. The conjunction so..that is mainly used to indicate the purpose.
8. She has got ............................. hair.
Please select 2 correct answers
Hair is uncountable. It cannot be used with the article a.
9. ................................... the cold she insisted on going out.
Please select 2 correct answers
Despite or in spite of is possible here.
10. ................................ she arrives, give her this message.
Before a clause we use in case.
11. I haven't seen him since .............................
There is no preposition or article before expressions like last week.
12. He ................................ school at the age of twelve.
We cannot use the present perfect tense with time expressions referring to the past.
Answers
1. Take the umbrella with you in case it rains.
2. The first time I went there was last year.
3. This is the village where I was born.
4. She got married a couple of months ago.
5. This is the man whom we met there.
6. I have warned you a hundred times not to do it.
7. I don’t think that she is interested in coming.
8. She has got long hair.
9. In spite of / despite the cold she insisted on going out.
10. In case she arrives, give her this message.
11. I haven’t seen him since last week.
12. He left school at the age of twelve.
