... D. would take
9. By the end of next year, my son _______ English for six months.
A. will learn B. will have learned C. has learned D. had learned
10. “ How long have you been with the company?”
... meeting D. have met
3. We __________ maths at this time last week.
A. were learning B. are learning C. was learning D. learnt
4. She was playing games while he __________a football match.
A. watched ... doing two exercises
7/. Present continuous :
So + am/ is /are + being + V3/ed +…… +by Os
………………………………………………….
8/. Past continuous :
S+ was/were +V-ing + O
Ex: Lan was doing two exercises...
... novel.
21 His mother's very proud of him.
22 The twins used to play rugby.
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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... opinion? (negative)
24
I (change) one every day.
20 Mary usually (learn) languages very quickly but she (not seem) able
to learn modern Greek.
21 I always (buy) lottery tickets but I never (win) ... Would you like to hear . . . story about . . . Englishman, . . . Irishman and . . . Scotsman?
~
No. I've heard . . . stories about . . . Englishmen, . . . Irishmen and . . . Scotsmen before...
... my best.
10. I did everything I could.
11. I must go now.
12. Diamonds suit me.
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200 ENGLISHgrammar
exercises
1
2 Auxiliary verbs: short answers PEG 108
Assume that questions are addressed ... plays Italian music.
5. drinks English beer.
6. dances with a Greek girl.
7. uses an English dictionary.
8. has lunch in a Japanese restaurant.
9. listens to the news in English.
10. writes in Spanish.
11. ... the answer.)
12. talks English.
13. corrects the Spanish essays.
14. explains in English.
15. lectures in Spanish.
16. broadcasts in Spanish.
17. addresses students in English.
18. cooks a Spanish...
...
exactly alike.
15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time.
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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... with the milkman when my
neighbour interrupted me.
20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?
21 It is difficult to learn a foreign language when you . . . an
opportunity ... the house?
In other English- speaking countries, however, the do forms are used almost exclusively. It
would therefore be possible to use do/did forms throughout the following exercises
(except...
... a predicate and its arguments the basic
proposition. But what role do the other words, may and that, have in the sentence?
Clearly, they have no role in the basic proposition, being neither ... because of their mental restrictions, no matter what the grammar was
capable of defining as grammatical. So the extra complication to the grammar would
sentence
Check Questions
51
Check Questions ...
243
1
The structure of CP 243
2
The Clause as CP 246
3
Interrogative CPs 248
3.1
Basic positions within the CP 248
3.2
Wh-movement 250
3.3
Inversion 253
3.4
The interaction...