Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word or phrase.
1. The mother was …………….. inside the house when the children started screaming.
Both hardly and scarcely are possible here.
2. It is the same everywhere ……………….. in India.
We cannot use except for before prepositions and conjunctions.
3. I don’t like their company. They talk ……………… rubbish.
We cannot use the article ‘a/an’ before uncountable nouns.
4. I have got too much nose and not ………………
Chin is a noun. When enough modifies a noun, it goes before that noun.
5. Come in quietly ………………… she doesn’t hear you.
That can be left out in an informal style in some common two-word conjunctions, such as so that, such…that, now that etc.
6. …………….. is a lot of noise in the street.
In sentences which say that something exists somewhere we usually use 'there' as a kind of preparatory subject.
7. ……………. he was foreign made it difficult for him to get a job.
It is unusual for that-clauses to stand alone as subjects. They are more often introduced by the expression ‘the fact’.
8. Have you got anything ...................... belongs to me?
9. She wondered why he ………………. there.
When the verb in the main clause is in the past tense, we are more likely to use a past tense in the subordinate clause as well.
10. I was very .....................… in the lesson.
We make the past continuous tense forms by putting 'was / were' before the -ing form of the verb.
11. We ………………… by the immigration officer.
12. She ………………….. in prison for life.
When the subject is not the doer of the action we use passive verb forms. In the simple past tense, passive forms are made by putting was/were before the verb.
Answers
1. The mother was hardly / scarcely inside the house when the children started screaming.
2. It is the same everywhere except in India.
3. I don’t like their company. They talk such rubbish.
4. I have got too much nose and not enough chin.
5. Come in quietly so / so that she doesn’t hear you.
6. There is a lot of noise in the street.
7. The fact that he was foreign made it difficult for him to get a job.
8. Have you got anything that / which belongs to me?
9. She wondered why he was there.
10. I was very interested in the lesson.
11. We were questioned by the immigration officer.
12. She was put in prison for life.
