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English practice

English Grammar Exercises

with Answers

Present and past

1   Present continuous (I am doing)

2   Present simple (I do)

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)

5   Past simple (I did)

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)

15  Past perfect (I had done)

16  Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)

17  Have and have got

18  Used to (do)

 

Future

19  Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future

20  (I’m) going to (do)

21   Will/shall 1

22   Will/shall 2

23   I will and I’m going to

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)

28   Must and can’t

29   May and might 1

30   May and might 2

31   Have to and must

32   Must   mustn’t   needn’t

33   Should 1

34   Should 2

35   Had better   It’s time

36   Would

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 knewI wish I knew

40   If I had knownI wish I had known

41   Wish

 

Passive

42   Passive 1 (is done / was done)

43   Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)

44   Passive 3

45   It is said that …   He is said to …   He is supposed to

46   Have something done

 

Reported speech

47   Reported speech 1 (He said that …)

48   Reported speech 2

 

Questions and auxiliary verbs

49   Questions 1

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 (likewould like etc.)

59   Prefer and would rather

60   Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing

61   Be/get used to something (I’m used to …)

62   Verb + preposition + –ing (succeed ining / accuse somebody ofing etc.)

63   Expressions + –ing

64   To … , for … and so that

65   Adjective + to

66   To … (afraid to do) and preposition+ –ing (afraid ofing)

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

72   A/an and the

73   The 1

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

79   Singular and plural

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

84   There … and it

85   Some and any

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

90   All, every and whole

91   Each and every

 

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)

102   So and such

103   Enough and too

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 (asas / 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

112   Even

 

Conjunctions and prepositions

113   Although / though / even though   In spite of / despite

114   In case

115   Unless   As long as   Provided/ providing

116   As (As I walked along the street … / As I was hungry …)

117   Like and as

118   Like / as if / as though

11 9   For, during and while

120   By and until   By the time

 

Prepositions

121   At/on/in (time)

122   On time and in time   At the end and in the end

123   In/at/on (position) 1

124   In/at/on (position) 2

125   In/at/on (position) 3

126   To/at/in/into

127   In/on/at (other uses)

128   By

129   Noun+ preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)

130   Adjective + preposition 1

131   Adjective + preposition 2

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

138   Phrasal verbs 2   in/out

139   Phrasal verbs 3   out

140   Phrasal verbs 4   on/off (1)

141   Phrasal verbs 5   on/off (2)

142   Phrasal verbs 6   up/down

143   Phrasal verbs 7   up (1)

144   Phrasal verbs 8   up (2)

145   Phrasal verbs 9   away/back

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)

The future: present continuous, will/shall, going to
(I am doing, I will/shall do and I am going to do)

The future: all forms

can, could and be able to

may and might

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

should

Modals: review

if I do and if I did

if I did and if I had done

Conditionals: review

I wish

The passive

have something done

Questions

Reported speech and questions

-ing and 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)

Verb forms: review

Countable and uncountable

a/an, some and the

the

Quantifiers and pronouns

Relative clauses

Adjectives and adverbs

Comparatives and superlatives

Word order

Prepositions of time

Prepositions of place

Prepositions (general)

Adjective/verb + preposition

Phrasal verbs (1)

Phrasal verbs (2)

Phrasal verbs (3)

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