Fill in the blanks.
1. If I had completed my studies, I …………………… a better job.
In the third conditional we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would/could/might have + past participle in the main clause.
2. Get that cat ............................. the piano.
3. You can eat as much as you ……………………
4. She said that she ............................ coming.
When the main verb is in the past tense, the verb in the subordinate clause too will be in the past tense.
5. ……………………. she tried, she could not solve the problem.
Please select 2 correct answers
Fronted adjectives/adverbs are possible in a structure with as or though.
6. The show was ……………………..
The present participle shows the action or people that cause the feeling.
7. He asked me what ................................. doing there.
The subject goes before the verb in indirect questions.
8. Hardly ................................ sat down to rest, when someone knocked on the door.
Inversion is used when a sentence starts with only or hardly or seldom.
9. Seldom ................................ seen such a mess.
Inversion is used when a sentence starts with only or hardly or seldom.
10. 'I don't want to do.' '......................... do I.'
Please select 2 correct answers
After a negative statement we can add another negative statement with neither or nor.
11. We cannot go out ................................... it rains.
12. I would rather you .............................. now.
We use a past tense with a present meaning after would rather.
Answers
1. If I had completed my studies, I could have found a better job.
2. Get that cat off the piano.
3. You can eat as much as you want.
4. She said that she was coming.
5. Hard though / Hard as she tried, she could not solve the problem.
6. The show was interesting.
7. He asked me what I was doing there.
8. Hardly had I sat down to rest, when someone knocked on the door.
9. Seldom have I seen such a mess.
10. ‘I don’t want to do.’ ‘Neither do I.’
11. We cannot go out as long as it rains.
12. I would rather you left now.
