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I Open the brackets using the correct verbal form for the given conditional sentences

1. He WOULD LOOK better if he shaved his beard.

2. I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT shares in that company if they were cheaper.

3. I WOULD BUY a new house if I had more money.

4. I WOULD HAVE KEPT a car if I could afford it.

5. I WOULD OFFER to help her if I thought I'd be any use.

6. I could get a job easily if I HAD a degree.

7. I could tell you what it means if I WAS well educated.

8. I'd go to see him more often if I LIVED nearer.

9. If he HE HAD DONE his homework differently he might be better marked.

10. If I WAS ill in hospital would you visit me?

II Check these sentences and find the missing prepositions

1.We arrived late at the cinema so we had to sit IN the back row.
2.We are offering solutions AT/FOR a price almost anyone can afford.

3.These books are priced AT $500 each.

4. There was a very serious accident ON the runway.

5. The train called AT Nottingham main station.

6. The meeting took place AT the company's headquarters.

7. The doctor gave me some pills FOR my cough.

8. That old house is being offered FOR sale.

9. Some people are in prison FOR crimes they have not committed.

10. It was a very long voyage. We were AT sea for 50 days.

III Put the words in brackets into the Past Simple, Past Continuous or Present Perfect.
1.Yesterday at 7.30 I was having breakfast.
2.Why didnt you go to the party last night?

3.Where's my wallet? It was on the table. Somebody has taken it.

4. What day was it yesterday?

5.What happened last week at your parent's?

6. What was the flight like yesterday?

7.We didnt want to bother them, so we stopped asking them stupid questions.

8.We have known each other for a long time.

9.This is the first time I have eaten caviar.

10.Last Saturday when it started raining some children were playing in the park.

IV Chose one of the sentence endings below each example to form a correct passive sentence
1. We _____.
can't have be see//can't have be seen//can't have been saw//can't have been see// can't have been seen
2. We _____ in the traffic.
was hold up//were held up//were helded up//were hold up//were holden up
3. We _____ for the night.
could not been put up//could not put up//could not be putted up//could not be puts up//could not be
put up
4. We _____ at the railway station.
was me//were meet//had be met//were meeted//were met
5. This song _____ for years.
has be known//has been knew//has been know//has been known//have been known
6. They put out all the candles that _____.
has been lighted//had been litted//had been lit//had been lighted//had be lit
7. The table _____.
was lied//were lain//was lain//was laid//were laid
8. The passports _____.
must not be loose//must not be loosed//must not be lost//must not been lost//must not lost
9. The passage _____ loud.
have been readed out//have been read out//has read out//has been readed out// has been read out
10. The letter _____ today.
will be sand//will be send//will be sent//will be sented//will been sent

V Turn these sentences into passive voice


1.The essays have to be given on Monday.
2.His confidence build up will be helped by this.

3.This government could be brought down by this scandal.

4.The road outside my house is being dug up.

5.A plan to stop drug trafficking had been drawn up .

6.The engagement was broken off just two days before the wedding.

7.The task is being broken down into smaller, manageable mini-tasks.

8.One of the other prisoners is being beaten .

9.The office had been blown up by terrorists.

10.I am being built up by the stress of the last few weeks.

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