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Name: _______________________________ LEVEL 1

Grammar B Correct the sentences in which the

A Write the possessive apostrophe (’s) in
the correct places in these sentences.
0 Ellie guitar playing is just fantastic.
Ellie’s
1 Sophia and Lucas bedrooms are at different ends of
the house.
underlined use of the past perfect or the
past perfect continuous is wrong. Check
(✓) the correct sentences. There is at least
one correct sentence.
0 By the time he was thirty, he had been starring
in eleven films.
had starred

9 I was five minutes late but luckily, the meeting

2 Her chief interest is in women health. hadn’t been starting.

3 Matias career has really taken

off. 10 It was strange. I’d thought about Max all morning
when he suddenly called.

4 I’ve never been to Sara and Ben apartment. Is it

near here?
11 He’d been touring the country, playing gigs,
for years before his career took off.
5 Understandably, they want to live near
their children school.
12 When I got there, she’d been studying for ten hours
and was in need of a break.
6 My mother parents house was on the coast.

13 I’d never been considering working for myself until

7 Paris population is currently over 2.2 million. I read that article.

8 The thieves fingerprints were found at the scene.

14 By 2013, they’d already made three recordings.

15 By September of that year, they had been

drawing up plans for three main floors of the
library.

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Vocabulary with template personalized bring out
innovative catch on manufacture affordable
A Replace the underlined part look up to
of the sentence with the correct
form of an option from the box.
There are two extra options. 0 Her career started to be successful overnight.
took off

miniature take off come up 1 Most of their goods are made by machines overseas.

2 Of course, it’s very hard to predict which styles

will become very popular and fashionable.

3 Our unique range of made different for each person

gifts are perfect for any occasion from birthdays to
weddings.

4 There was a very much smaller train in the park,

which the kids enjoyed looking at.

5 All these goods are produced using a basic

pattern or example from which others are made.
7 We’re looking for designs that are new and advanced.

6 It’s so hard to keep inventing new styles and designs.

8 We badly need homes that are cheap enough to buy.
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