USE OF ENGLISH REVISION

VERB PATTERNS
A. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1 I don’t expect _____________ from Matt until tomorrow as I know he’s very busy
today. (hear)
2 You will be given an opportunity ________________ questions at the end of the
lecture. (ask)
3 Esra wanted _______________ Mick some support but knew how difficult that might
be. (offer)
4 Kim encouraged Alex _____________ the quiz as she was sure he’d do well. (enter)
5 Will was surprised when his boss asked him if he still enjoyed _____________ with
him. (work)
6 After seeing the doctor, Tom was advised                               another appointment for
two weeks’ time. (make)
7 Although Jen had contemplated                               a few times, she never had. (move)

DESCRIBING HABITS

A. Rewrite the sentences using the words in brackets.

1) Why do they watch so many films? (always)
2) She started crying whenever she didn’t get her own way. (would)

3) On this occasion I like to believe Dan’s story. It does sound plausible. (inclined)

4) Bob can’t stop parking in front of our house even though we’ve asked him not
to. (keep)

5) You know what Sarah’s like! She can exaggerate. (tendency)

6) I sometimes spend hours getting ready then decide I don’t want to go out. (nine
times out of ten)

7) When I was a first-year student, I forgot to do my homework many times.

(forgetting)

HYPOTHETICAL CONDITIONAL (PAST)

1. Find and correct the mistakes in sentences 1–6 below. Tick the correct
sentences.
1 If you’d failed your driving test, how would you felt?
2 But for John’s quick thinking, the boy would’ve been badly maimed for life.
3 We’ll have helped you if we’d known you were in trouble. Why didn’t you call us?
4 Ashley wouldn’t have lived in Australia if he hadn’t met Rachel but is very glad that he
did.
5 If we hadn’t forgotten to tell Jill where we were going. She’ll be worried sick.
6 Now that he’s in his twenties, Leigh is regretting playing truant at school when he was
a teenager.
7 I wish you’d say that you’d be arriving early. I’m still at work!
8 Had he not gone to the university to study sports science, Joe would’ve joined the
navy instead.
9 If you’d known he was an imposter, what would you do?
10 If only I didn’t tell my boss what I really think. I’m not surprised he sacked me.

ANSWER KEY:

1. 1 to hear
2 to ask
3 to offer
4 to enter
5 working
6 to make
7 moving

2. 1 felt have felt 2  3 ’ll ’d 4 

5 If If only 6 is regretting regrets
7 say said 8  9 do have done
10 didn’t tell hadn’t told

3. 1- why are they always watching so many films?

2- she would start crying whenever she didn’t get her own way.
3- On this occasion I’m inclined to believe Dan’s story. It does sound plausible.
4- Bob keeps on parking in front of our house even though we’ve asked him
not to.
5- You know what Sarah’s like! She has a tendency to exaggerate.
6- Nine times out of ten, I spend hours getting ready then decide I don’t want
to go out.
7- When I was a first-year student, I was forever forgetting to do my
homework.