Ejercicios Prácticos de Gramática Inglesa: Tiempos Verbales, Condicionales y Estructuras Avanzadas

1. Following Conditionals

• If you pass your exams, you will study at university.
• If he hadn't had such a good lawyer, he would have gone to prison.
• Unless you say sorry, I won't speak to you again.
• Providing that you arrived on time, we wouldn't miss the beginning.

2. Complementary Sentences: Suitable Verbal Tenses

• How often do you see your grandparents?
• What are you doing this evening?
• I've been doing homework since 5 o'clock.
• This time next week, I will be sitting on a plane to Mallorca.
• He left school in 1973.
• The government predicts that inflation will fall to two per cent.
• We were watching the news when you rang.
• James and I are so in love. We are going to get married next year.
• By 4 o'clock, they had walked almost twenty kilometers, but they...

3. Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

• Paris, where I spent my honeymoon, is my favourite city.
• The man that / who lives next door to me owns five cars.
• Ana, whom you met at Jim's, is travelling round the USA.
• The Arctic Winter Games, which are held every two years, are very interesting.
• The film which / that / Ø I told you to see finished last...

4. Reported Speech

• The teacher told us to work in pairs.
• My brother advised me not to lend any money to Katrina.
• Anna said that she would ask her friend the following week.
• Tom explained that Mark had bought a new bike.
• He asked if I had lost something.

5. Have Something Done

• I had my photo taken last week by the photographer.
• Her hair is being cut at the moment by the hairdresser.
• His car is going to be repaired tomorrow by the mechanic.

6. Modal Verbs

• You shouldn't use your real name in a chat room.
• Those seats must be ours.
• School mustn't have given us permission to play games during class.
• They don't have to study a foreign language.
• Your computer might have a virus.

7. I Wish Structures

• I wish I could stop smoking.
• I wish I had studied English last year.
• I wish my parents gave me independence.
• I wish I hadn't told Stefan about our relationship.

8. The Passive Voice

• The Olympic Games were attended by millions of people.
• The barbecue has been cancelled.
• It is known that smoking is bad for your health.
• A prize is going to be given to the best student.
• It is thought that the film is unsuitable for children.

9. Choose the Correct Alternative

Options: to run, when, been offered, who, giving up, to look, to get, wouldn't have, have to, which

10. Rewrite Sentences Using the Words Below

• Smoking in public places should be banned by the government.
• Mr. Owen, who is my uncle, teaches French at my school.
• I was given that for my birthday.
• We can't afford to eat there because we don't have enough money.
• You have to listen to all the speakers.
• The teenagers asked the policeman to listen to what they were saying.
• Unless they go to the debate, they won't have their say.
• The issues were discussed in parliament.
• Top authors will teach students how to write a novel.
• "I want to find a proper job," Leon told his parents.
• Our tutor gives lectures on a wide range of subjects.
• "I will ask them to interview the man now," the secretary said.
• The manager led them into a small room.

11. Appropriate Simile or Idiom

• Red as a beetroot
• Fly off the handle
• Quiet as a mouse
• Over the moon
• Pain in the neck

12. Gerunds or Infinitives

Options: to see, reading, smoking, to look down, meeting

13. Translation

• Well-behaved: amb bona conducta
• Warm-hearted: persona amb sentiments
• Cool-headed: de ment freda

14. Suitable Preposition

Options: TO, FOR, ON