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
38 If I do ... and If I did ...
39 If I knew... I wish I knew ...
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.)
64 To ... , for ... and so that ...
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)