English practice
English Grammar Exerciseswith Answers
Present and past
1 Present continuous (I am doing)
3 Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)
4 Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
6 Past continuous (I was doing)
Present perfect and past
7 Present perfect 1 (I have done)
8 Present perfect 2 (I have done)
9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)
10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)
11 How Long have you (been) … ?
12 For and since When … ? and How Long … ?
13 Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)
14 Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)
16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
Future
19 Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
24 Will be doing and will have done
25 When I do / When I’ve done When and if
Modals
26 Can, could and (be) able to
27 Could (do) and could have (done)
37 Can/Could/Would you … ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)
If and wish
40 If I had known … I wish I had known …
Passive
42 Passive 1 (is done / was done)
43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
45 It is said that … He is said to … He is supposed to …
Reported speech
47 Reported speech 1 (He said that …)
Questions and auxiliary verbs
50 Questions 2 (Do you know where … ? / He asked me where …)
51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
52 Question tags (do you? isn’t it? etc.)
–ing and to …
53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
54 Verb + to … (decide to … / forget to … etc.)
55 Verb (+ object)+ to … (I want you to … etc.)
56 Verb + –ing or to … 1 (remember/regret etc.)
57 Verb + –ing or to … 2 (try/need/help)
58 Verb + –ing or to … 3 (like / would like etc.)
60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
61 Be/get used to something (I’m used to …)
62 Verb + preposition + –ing (succeed in –ing / accuse somebody of –ing etc.)
66 To … (afraid to do) and preposition+ –ing (afraid of –ing)
67 See somebody do and see somebody doing
68 –ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)
Articles and nouns
69 Countable and uncountable 1
70 Countable and uncountable 2
71 Countable nouns with a/an and some
74 The 2 (school / the school etc.)
75 The 3 (children / the children)
76 The 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc., the + adjective)
77 Names with and without the 1
78 Names with and without the 2
80 Noun+ noun (a tennis ball / a headache)
81 –‘s (your sister’s name) and of … (the name of the book)
Pronouns and determiners
82 Myself/yourself/themselves etc.
83 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself
86 No/none/any Nothing/nobody etc.
87 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
88 All / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
89 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
Relative clauses
92 Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/ which
93 Relative clauses 2: clauses with and without who/that/which
94 Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where
95 Relative clauses 4: extra information clauses (1)
96 Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2)
97 –ing and –ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)
Adjectives and adverbs
98 Adjectives ending in –ing and –ed (boring/bored etc.)
99 Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
100 Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)
101 Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well/fast/late, hard/ hardly)
104 Quite, pretty, rather and fairly
105 Comparison 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)
106 Comparison 2 (much better / any better / better and better / the sooner the better)
107 Comparison 3 (as … as / than)
108 Superlatives (the longest, the most enjoyable etc.)
109 Word order 1: verb+ object; place and time
110 Word order 2: adverbs with the verb
111 Still, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer
Conjunctions and prepositions
113 Although / though / even though In spite of / despite
115 Unless As long as Provided/ providing
116 As (As I walked along the street … / As I was hungry …)
120 By and until By the time …
Prepositions
122 On time and in time At the end and in the end
129 Noun+ preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
132 Verb+ preposition 1 to and at
133 Verb+ preposition 2 about/ for/of/after
134 Verb+ preposition 3 about and of
135 Verb+ preposition 4 of/for/from/on
136 Verb+ preposition 5 in/ into/with/to/on
Phrasal verbs
137 Phrasal verbs 1 General points
140 Phrasal verbs 4 on/off (1)
SUPPLEMENTARY EXERCISES
Present continuous and present simple
(I am doing and I do)
Past simple and past continuous
(I did and I was doing)
Present and past
(I do / I am doing and I did / I was doing)
Present perfect simple and continuous
(I have done and I have been doing)
Present perfect simple and continuous; past simple
(I have done and I have been doing; I did)
Present perfect and present
(I have done / I have been doing and I do / I am doing)
Present perfect, present and past
(I have done / I have been doing, I do / I am doing and I did)
Present perfect and past simple
(I have done / I have been doing and I did)
Past simple, past continuous and past perfect
(I did, I was doing and I had done / I had been doing)
Past simple, past continuous and used to
(I did, I was doing and I used to do)
Present, present perfect and past
The future: present tenses and will/shall
(I do / I am doing and I will/shall do)
can, could, may, might, must and can’t
must(n’t), need(n’t), should(n’t) and don’t have to
(don’t) have to, should(n’t), had better (not) and ought (not) to
Prepositions and expressions + -ing
I’m used to doing and I used to do
to … and preposition + -ing
(afraid to do and afraid of doing)