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Grammar exercises.

Exercise 1.

Use “ to be “ or “ to have” in the Present Indefinite Tense:

1. You ….welcome. 2. The metro station … far from my house. 3. Mary and Nelly … friends. 4. She … out. 5. It … 5 o’clock now. 6. She … a nice flat.

7. We … a little child. She … four. 8. They … a big car. It … red. 9. How … you ? 10 . How old … Mary? 11. How many children … they? 12. What country … she from? 13. We … well. 14. They … a small cottage. It … far away. 15. She … at home. 16. She … no time. 17. He … bad habits. 18. How far … it from here? 19. It … easy to ask him about it. 20. It … not a good of her to say so. 21. She … two mistakes in the test. Her mistakes … bad. 22. They … glad to see her. 23. It … a rainy day, … he an umbrella with him?

Exercise 2.

Say if the verb “to be “ is : a) notional, b) link verb, c) modal, d) auxiliary.

1.There are a lot of things to do. 2. It’s six o’clock . He is at home at this time. 3. She is too young to understand it. 4. The whole country is going on strike. 5. The new film is to be on at our cinema next week. 6. He is taking his English exam tomorrow. 7. The football match will be shown on TV. 8. The door was open. 9. She is to return on Saturday. 10. It was a nasty day. It was raining cats and dogs. 11. I was surprised that there was so little traffic in the streets. 12. Sentence 5 is on page 15. 13. What am I to do ? 14. Sunday is my day off. 15. My mother was 40 yesterday. 16. Have you ever been in trouble?

Exercise 3.

Say if the verb “to have” is: a) notional, b) auxiliary, c) modal, d) part of a set phrase.

1.It has been a hard day. 2. Jane has got a good voice. 3. We haven’t had our dinner yet. 4. You don’t have to worry. 5. We have no time left. 6. My father has a farm in the North of Scotland. 7. She had ten minutes before she had to leave for work. 8. I hope you had a good time yesterday. 9. Does this bus go to the centre? – No, it doesn’t. You’ll have to change for No 5. 10. I’ve never been to Athens and I’ve never been to Rome. 11. I have to work tomorrow. 12. Have they a car ?- No, they haven’t bought one yet. 13. I don’t mind having a holiday for a change. 14. Let/s have a break. 15. It has been raining since morning. 16. I didn’t have enough money to buy the coat.

Exercise 4.

Use the right pronoun :

1. Kate and ( I, me) work together. 2. We spent our holiday together with (them, they). 3.My sister and (I , me ) are good friends.4. It’s (he, him). 5. (She, her) writes to (he, him) every day. 6. (We, us) enjoy playing tennis.7.Will you give (her, she) and (I, me) some help? 8. Helen and (they, them) are next- door neighbours. 9. (My, me) aunt Susan is (my, me) mother’s sister. 10. (Our, us) relatives are coming to see (our, us) today. 11. Tell (them, their) about it. 12. Is this (you, your) dog? There is something wrong with (it, its) ear. 13. He gave (me, my) (him, his) photograph in which I couldn’t recognize (him, his).

Exercise 5.

Use articles where necessary :

1. London is … capital of… Great Britain,… full name of which is … United Kingdom of … Great Britain and … Northern Ireland. 2…Volga is…fabulous river. 3. They used to spend their holidays on …Black Sea coast in… Crimea. 4. Many European adventurers crossed…Atlantic Ocean in …search of… riches on… American continent prior to… Columbus. 5….Gorki Street was renamed into… Tverskaya Street. 6. …Canada is situated in… northern part of… North America. 7. … room 25 is on… 3d floor. 8. … lecture begins at… 9 o’clock in… morning. 10. …5 o’clock tea is.. tradition in England. 11. Open … textbook on … page 20 and look at …picture at… top of… page. .12. He read … story from… beginning to …end. 13. She is in … 10th year at… school and her brother is…3d year student at … university.

Exercise 6.

Use “much”, “many”, “few”, “little”, “a few”, “a little”, “a lot of”:

1. I have … questions to ask. 2. Is there … furniture in your cottage ? 3. Is there … fruit in the vase ? 4.Is there … coffee in the pot ? 5. Has he …or…free time? 6. There were so… people in the room that we couldn’t move. 7. She is a quiet person. She doesn’t say… 8. I put … salt in my soup, perhaps, too… . 9. I don’t think Pat would be a good teacher. She’s got …patience with children. 10. There were … new books in the library. 11. James has got … work today. 12. Don’t put … milk into his coffee. 13. Is there … space in your room ?- No, not very… .14. This town isn’t very well-known and there isn’t … to see, so …tourists come here. 15. It cost me … money to furnish the room.

Exercise 7.

Make comparison using the models:

Model: teacher – doctor - important

The profession of a teacher is as important as that of a doctor.

  1. book- film – interesting. 2. Brother – sister – tall. 3. July – August – warm. 4.

Daughter- mother – beautiful . 5. Sofa – armchair – comfortable. 6. Lion – tiger – dangerous . 7. Bicycle – car – expensive.

Model : English – Greek – difficult

English is not so difficult as Greek .

1. spring – summer – hot. 2. Silver – gold – expensive. 3. Candies – chocolate – sweet. 4. Meat – vegetables – useful. 5. He – she – smart . 6. The moon – the sun- bright. 7. Cats – dogs – intelligent 8. Train – car – fast.

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