Name : ________________________ Grammar Adv B

Date : ________________________ Worksheet 1 _______ / questions

A. Underline the passive infinitives.

1. She would like to be talking to the audience by 3 o'clock.____
2. I prefer to be driven when I'm in cities I don't know well.____
3. They expected to be told what to do before the meeting.____
4. He was expecting to have been given an award by now.____
5. He wanted to be notified if the plans changed.___
6. We were intending to have gone by now.____
7. The winner is not likely to have been revealed yet.____
8. Students will be instructed to leave their electronic devices at home.____

B. Match the sentences in Activity A with the infinitive form (a-d).

a. active infinitive
b. passive infinitive
c. active perfect infinitive
d. passive perfect infinitive

C. Match the words in bold in the sentences (1-8) with the verb structures (a-d).
1. I'd like to congratulate Juan on his award._____
2. I don't think there's anything that could have been done to prevent him from resigning._____
3. Applications must be submitted by June 1st._____
4. The book is believed to have been written by his father._____
5. I need these books to be taken to the library._____
6. There isn't much to be done. We just have to wait for the award committee to decide._____
7. I wanted him to have finished by three._____
8. By the time i’m 40, i want my photographs to have been published in National Geographic!_____

a. active infinitive
b. passive infinitive
c. active perfect infinitive
d. passive perfect infinitive

D. Which of these nouns are nominalizations? Complete the chart.

area celebration change city

conservation creation decrease division
encouragement energy health improvement
party pollution quality reduction
space system

Nominalizations Non-nominalization

E. Write nouns formed from the verbs and adjectives.

 1. applicable → ____________________ 8. independent→ ____________________
2. argue→ ____________________ 9. inquire → ____________________
3. careless→ ____________________ 10. interfere→ ____________________
4. contribute→ ____________________ 11. invest→ ____________________
5. depart→ ____________________ 12. predict→ ____________________
6. difficult→ ____________________ 13. solve→ ____________________
7. discover → ____________________ 14. urban→ ____________________

F. Read and underline the verb constructions that express a habitual action or state in the past.

"Everybody saw the ocean as a big blue tank of water, but for me there was something more going on and I
wanted to know what it was. My parents used to buy second-hand National Geographic magazines from
this little shop down the road. I'd flip through them and see these beautiful images. I used to think, wow,
one day that could be me.I wanted to be that explorer and discover what no one else had discovered."-
Asha de Vos, marine biologist.

"My Uncle Tom was fortunate enough to have a career with the FBI, which took him across the world.
Upon coming home, he would always share tales of his travels. We would sit down and he would take out a
globe and spin it and ask me to put my finger gently on it until it stopped somewhere. He would then quiz
me about the place and, if I wasn't familiar with it, he would tell me everything he knew. Through this he
showed me the vastness and great diversity of the world, but,at the same time, its accessibility, if you
wanted to explore it."- Donald Slater, archeologist.

"My parents left El Salvador to escape the civil war and give the family an opportunity at an education and
a fighting chance at a stable living. My parents would always say that there are a lot of things that people
can take from you, but an education is something no one can take. So my upbringing was my most
powerful motivator."- Steve Ramirez, neurobiologist.

G. Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

1. I didn't use to / used to like soccer.
2. My grandfather never use to / used to sleep more than four hours.
3. Did she use to / used to do ballet when she was a child?
4. I never used to / didn't used to stay up past midnight.
5. Teenagers use to / have a tendency to stay up chatting with their friends on social media.
6. My grandmother would / used to have a very annoying alarm clock.
7. Did you use to / get used to sleep in on Sundays?