Key to Exercises: Confusing Verbs

Exercise 1:
1. Heavy rains have made to parts of the road becoming impassable.
2. We’re going to have the roof done next spring.
3. It’s all part of the research I’m doing for my dissertation.
4. I’m rather busy/I’m doing something this evening so I won’t be able to make the
cinema/make it.
5. The old pond has made a wonderful padding pool for the kids.
6. How can you talk to me like that after all I’ve done for you!
7. Are you going to do any more aerobics classes?
8. In many countries women still make less money than men for the same work.
9. They made the hostages to walk for three days without food or water.
10. They’ve been making Rolls Royce cars in the same factory for forty years.

exercise 2:
1. take care
2. to take
3. have
4. takes/will take
5. have
6. have
7. have
8. had
9. has taken
10. take
11. to take
12. having
13. will have
14. take care

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 15. take

Exercise 3:
1. take
2. lent
3. bring
4. fetching
5. lending
6. brought
7. borrow
8. took
9. fetch
10. borrow

Exercise 4:

1. John’s mother used to make him clean up his room.

2. The teacher doesn’t let her students use their mobile phones in class.
3. Julie’s father doesn’t let her use his car.
4. The professor often makes the students do a lot of homework.
5. The policeman made the teenagers pick up the litter they had dropped.
6. My mother never let me stay out late when I was young.
7. The guard made her get off the train because she didn’t have a ticket.
8. Lucy might let you borrow her laptop if you ask her nicely.
9. The comedian really made us laugh last night.
10. When people are late it makes me really annoyed!

Exercise 5:

1)b 2)a 3)c 4)a 5)c 6)a 7)c 8)c 9)b 10)a