Grammar Test - Upper Intermediate Level

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Grammar Check

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms. Sometimes changes in word order are necessary.


1. A: ..........................................................................( find) the letter you were looking for. Here it is!
B: Thank you so much. By the way I .....................................................................(lose) my glasses too.
2. Technology and medical knowledge .........................................(become) more and more advanced and younger and younger babies can ...................................................................................(help) nowadays.
3. They say that school days are ...............................(happy) of your life. But I spent most of my time ................................................(hope) I ‘d catch colds and coughs so I could have some time off school.
4. Hardly I .....................................................................(get) out of the bank when I saw two police cars following me. If I had used the back door I .............................................................(notice) by anybody.
5. In case it .................................................(be) possible to cheat in the exam , I .................................. ........................................................................................................(take) a mobile phone and earphones.
6. Instead of ..........................................(sightsee) the town we took a taxi to a deserted beach where we snorkelled in the warm water and .......................................(feed) schools of slippery fish with biscuits.
7. If you wanted to get a better mark, you should .............................................(check) your answers more thoroughly. It is no use ....................................................................( cry) over the spilt milk now.
8. She agreed with me that it ......................................................................(be) better for us to buy a new car but she suggested ........................................................................... (take) out a loan.
9. Don’t worry that Susan is late. She might .........................................................................(miss) the train. I think she ................................................................................................(come) any minute now.
10. A: Could you tell me what the word “hamlet” .......................................................................(mean)?
B: Why you .............................................................................................(not look) it up in a dictionary?
11. I’d prefer ............................................................................................(stay) at a different hotel this time. In the previous one I .................................................................( feel) as if everyone was staring at me.
12. After a while he .............................................................................................................(stop) running and ....................................................................................................................(lie) down on the ground.
13. I wish Graham ........................................................................................(not have) his car ...... ...................................................................(tow) away by the police. We had to go on foot all the way.
14. He is reported ..........................................................(drive) whilst drunk In fact, when he was caught he ...............................................................................(be unable) tell a breathalyser from a radar trap.
15. I was burgled last week but fortunately I ................................... (insure) my house before. The insurance company is bound ................................... (cover) my losses amounting to Ł 10,000 .