Fill in the blanks.
1. It is no good, ……………………?
Affirmative tags are used after negative expressions like no, never etc.
2. Nothing can happen, …………………………?
Nothing is a negative word. Hence, we use an affirmative tag after it.
3. Somebody called, ……………………….?
4. My sister is nearly as tall as ………………………..
Object pronouns are preferred after as and than.
5. Everybody except ……………………….. can go.
Object pronouns are used after except.
6. Nobody but …………………………. was there.
Object pronouns are used after but.
7. He ………………………… his memory.
When there is no reference to past time, we use the present perfect to talk about finished events whose results are still felt.
8. I told him that I ………………………… to that place.
'I have not been to that place,' I told him. I told him that I had not been to that place. A present perfect in the direct speech becomes past perfect in the indirect speech.
9. …………………………. the novel, I don’t want to read the movie.
10. He ………………………… to join army last week.
We use the simple past to simply say that something happened in the past.
11. When I arrived at the party, she …………………………… home.
12. I …………………………….. a lot of movies recently.
The present perfect continuous is used to talk about an action or situation that started in the past and continued up to the present.
Answers
1. It is no good, is it?
2. Nothing can happen, can it?
3. Somebody called, didn’t they?
4. My sister is nearly as tall as me.
5. Everybody except him can go.
6. Nobody but her was there.
7. He has lost his memory.
8. I told him that I had not been to that place.
9. Having seen the novel, I don’t want to read the movie.
10. He applied to join army last week.
11. When I arrived at the party, she had already gone home.
12. I have been watching a lot of movies recently.
