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1. Correct the following sentence: viii. Reduce to tears x. They are still preparing the
i. You should not to smoke. ix. In the bag food.
ii. The police is coming. x. Blow up in face 7. Use the correct tense form of the
iii. You speak English good. 5. Complete the following sentences words given in the bracket:
iv. Do you like a glass of wine? with the correct word from the i. He —— for an hour now. I’ll be
v. Where is post office? given homonyms/homophones: finished soon. (speak)
2. Use apostrophe where necessary: i. The teacher walked down the ii. How long —— John and
i. Hed like to go to South (aisle, isle) between the rows of Maria? (you know)
America, but he doesnt have desks. iii. He —— in Oxford for two years
the money. ii. Hadil has a (pane, pain) in her and when his mother died he
ii. Its been ages since I saw him. shoulder. moved to London. (live)
iii. We’ve had many happy iii. The school (principal, principle) iv. After Harry —— his work he
Christmas’s. spoke to a group of parents. —— Jude from the office.
iv. Theyre expecting you. iv. The clerk wants to (sell, cell) as (finish, call)
v. All the associations heads many TVs as possible. v. You —— your homework for
discussed the strike. v. I don’t want to talk about the two hours. Haven’t you
3. Fill in the blanks with correct (passed, past) anymore. finished yet? (do)
prepositions: vi. Nobody (knows, nose) what vi. He always —— to the
Since the announcement (i) —— 6 you are thinking. supermarket alone, but today
October 2009 that Charles has been vii. I have (for, four, fore) dollars in he —— his son with him. (go,
awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize (ii) my pocket. take)
—— Physics, we have received viii. I need to take a (break, brake) vii. He never —— in the evening,
messages (iii) —— friends from all from this exercise. only on Sundays. (work)
(iv) —— the world (v) —— the ix. Humans have hands. Dogs viii. I —— to South America but I
Internet, fax, and email. We are have (paws, pause). have been to New York several
overwhelmed (vi) —— the sea of x. (He’ll, Heel, Heal) be here in a times. (never, be)
congratulatory messages from so few minutes. ix. —— Jean? No, she probably
many people, and the many 6. Change the following sentences went to her friend’s place.
requests (vii) —— interviews from from Active to Passive Voice: (anyone, see)
the media. A Nobel Laureate of i. They haven’t decided anything x. I —— to the bank yesterday
Chinese ethnicity is a rare event and yet. but when I got there it was
we understand the outpouring (viii) ii. The crowd was slowly filling closed. (go)
—— happiness and pride (ix) —— the new stadium. 8. Use the correct form of pronoun
our people throughout the world iii. Someone has suggested that in the following sentences:
wherever they live. The Nobel Prize the shop should close. i. I came across with a friend of
is an international prize and has iv. Dad used a knife to open the —— while walking down the
been awarded (x) —— work done window. road.
internationally. v. The waitress will bring you ii. I believe that’s not Maria’s car;
4. Use the following idioms in your drinks in a minute. —— is white.
sentences of your own: vi. Nobody ever heard anything of iii. I just can’t understand the
i. Groan inwardly John again. reason why you want to live
ii. Beard the lion in his den vii. People asked me the way three ——.
iii. Keep a stiff upper lip times iv. As newborns can’t feed ——
iv. Go bananas viii. Lots of people had parked their they rely on their mother.
v. Makes your flesh crawl cars on the pavement. v. George has been living ——
vi. Speak volumes ix. The helpers have not packed since he was a teenager.
vii. Not turn a hair the boxes yet.
158 Competition Wizard March 2018