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She ___ six pages so far. (completed total)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: has written
Completed sentence: She has written six pages so far. (completed total) Present perfect simple focuses on completion, quantity or a stable state; continuous focuses on duration or visible evidence of activity. Some verbs allow both with a change in emphasis. State verbs such as own normally stay simple.
The meal was free. You ___ have paid! (you did pay)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: needn't
Completed sentence: The meal was free. You needn't have paid! (you did pay) Needn't and don't need to mean no present necessity. Didn't need to says there was no past necessity, without itself proving whether the action happened. Needn't have + past participle says the action happened but was unnecessary. Mustn't instead prohibits.
If you heat ice, it ___. (general fact)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: melts
Completed sentence: If you heat ice, it melts. (general fact) Zero conditionals describe general relationships using present forms in both clauses. First conditionals describe real future possibilities, normally with present in the if-clause and will/modal in the main clause. Future time clauses follow the same present-tense principle.
The room is ___ painted now.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: being
Completed sentence: The room is being painted now. Passive constructions use be in the required tense plus a past participle. Continuous passive uses being; perfect passive uses been. Modal passive uses modal + be + participle; perfect modal passive uses modal + have been + participle. Avoid passivising intransitive verbs.
He denied ___ the document.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: taking
Completed sentence: He denied taking the document. Verb complements differ: admit/deny/avoid + -ing, agree/refuse + to-infinitive, and preposition + -ing. Some verbs change meaning: try doing tests a method, while try to do attempts a task. Perfect infinitives refer to earlier actions.
___ of the two routes is suitable; both are closed.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Neither
Completed sentence: Neither of the two routes is suitable; both are closed. Quantifiers differ in number and definiteness: both/either/neither refer to two; all/most to larger groups or amounts; no precedes a noun and none stands alone. Use of before a definite group or object pronoun. All information is singular; both people is plural.
Take ___ you need.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: whatever
Completed sentence: Take whatever you need. Whatever, whoever, wherever and whenever can mean any thing/person/place/time or no matter what/who/where/when. However + adjective/adverb means no matter how. These clauses use ordinary statement order, not question inversion.
I ___ understand your concern. (emphatic present)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: do
Completed sentence: I do understand your concern. (emphatic present) Auxiliaries form questions, negatives, emphasis and short responses. Do can emphasise a simple-tense statement; so/neither use inversion for agreement. Repeat the appropriate first auxiliary rather than the entire verb phrase.
The more you practice, the ___ you get.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: better
Completed sentence: The more you practice, the better you get. The + comparative ..., the + comparative ... expresses linked change: the more you practice, the easier it becomes. Use more/less with longer forms and -er with shorter ones. Repeated comparatives, such as colder and colder, express gradual change without a second clause.
___ the delay, we arrived before noon.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Despite
Completed sentence: Despite the delay, we arrived before noon. Although/even though take clauses; despite/in spite of take noun phrases or -ing. To/in order to/so as to introduce purpose infinitives; so that introduces a clause. Negative purpose uses in order not to or so as not to.
Who ___ the window? (asking for the subject)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: broke
Completed sentence: Who broke the window? (asking for the subject) Yes/no and object questions normally use auxiliary inversion; subject questions do not add do. Negative questions can express surprise or seek confirmation. Tags and alternative questions have distinct forms, while embedded questions use statement order.
Choose the natural sentence.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: She has probably left.
Correct choice: She has probably left. Frequency and certainty adverbs often follow the first auxiliary but precede a main lexical verb; manner often goes after the object. Place usually precedes time at the end. Position can change focus: only should be placed near what it limits.
She was exhausted because she had been ___ all day.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: travelling
Completed sentence: She was exhausted because she had been travelling all day. Narratives use past simple for events, past continuous for background, past perfect simple for earlier completion and past perfect continuous for earlier ongoing activity. Establish the reference time before choosing a perfect tense; avoid shifting every verb unnecessarily.
The lights are on. They must have ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: returned
Completed sentence: The lights are on. They must have returned. For past deductions, use modal + have + past participle: must have for strong belief, might/could have for possibility and can't/couldn't have for impossibility. Distinguish could have as uncertain deduction from unrealised opportunity by context.
I'll send it when I have ___ it.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: checked
Completed sentence: I'll send it when I have checked it. A present simple future time clause states when an event happens. A present perfect clause emphasises completion before the next action: when I have finished. Do not use will merely because the clause refers to the future; the main clause may contain will.
It is ___ that the plan will succeed.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: believed
Completed sentence: It is believed that the plan will succeed. Reporting passives distance the writer from a claim: It is said that... or subject + is said to.... A perfect infinitive places the reported event earlier: is believed to have left. The reporting tense and the infinitive's time relationship are separate choices.
I'd rather ___ by train.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: travel
Completed sentence: I'd rather travel by train. Would rather takes a bare infinitive; would prefer takes to-infinitive or a noun. Prefer doing to doing compares activities; would rather do than do compares choices. A different subject after would rather uses a past form for present/future preference.
The instructions were ___, so nobody understood.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: confusing
Completed sentence: The instructions were confusing, so nobody understood. Participles can describe a cause or a resulting state: a confusing explanation, a confused reader; a broken window, falling leaves. -ed does not automatically mean past time, and -ing does not always describe a feeling. Choose according to the relationship with the noun.
Do you know where she ___?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: lives
Completed sentence: Do you know where she lives? Indirect questions use statement order after an introductory phrase: Could you tell me where she lives? Yes/no questions use if/whether. Remove do/does/did when they only served question inversion, but keep necessary tense or negative auxiliaries.
At this time tomorrow, I will be ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: flying
Completed sentence: At this time tomorrow, I will be flying. Future continuous uses will be + -ing for activity in progress at a future time. Future perfect uses will have + past participle for completion by a future point. By marks a deadline; at often locates an activity in progress.
She ___ six pages so far. (completed total)
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Correct answer: has written
Completed sentence: She has written six pages so far. (completed total) Present perfect simple focuses on completion, quantity or a stable state; continuous focuses on duration or visible evidence of activity. Some verbs allow both with a change in emphasis. State verbs such as own normally stay simple.
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Correct answer: needn't
Completed sentence: The meal was free. You needn't have paid! (you did pay) Needn't and don't need to mean no present necessity. Didn't need to says there was no past necessity, without itself proving whether the action happened. Needn't have + past participle says the action happened but was unnecessary. Mustn't instead prohibits.
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Correct answer: melts
Completed sentence: If you heat ice, it melts. (general fact) Zero conditionals describe general relationships using present forms in both clauses. First conditionals describe real future possibilities, normally with present in the if-clause and will/modal in the main clause. Future time clauses follow the same present-tense principle.
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Correct answer: being
Completed sentence: The room is being painted now. Passive constructions use be in the required tense plus a past participle. Continuous passive uses being; perfect passive uses been. Modal passive uses modal + be + participle; perfect modal passive uses modal + have been + participle. Avoid passivising intransitive verbs.
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Correct answer: taking
Completed sentence: He denied taking the document. Verb complements differ: admit/deny/avoid + -ing, agree/refuse + to-infinitive, and preposition + -ing. Some verbs change meaning: try doing tests a method, while try to do attempts a task. Perfect infinitives refer to earlier actions.
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Correct answer: Neither
Completed sentence: Neither of the two routes is suitable; both are closed. Quantifiers differ in number and definiteness: both/either/neither refer to two; all/most to larger groups or amounts; no precedes a noun and none stands alone. Use of before a definite group or object pronoun. All information is singular; both people is plural.
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Correct answer: whatever
Completed sentence: Take whatever you need. Whatever, whoever, wherever and whenever can mean any thing/person/place/time or no matter what/who/where/when. However + adjective/adverb means no matter how. These clauses use ordinary statement order, not question inversion.
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Correct answer: do
Completed sentence: I do understand your concern. (emphatic present) Auxiliaries form questions, negatives, emphasis and short responses. Do can emphasise a simple-tense statement; so/neither use inversion for agreement. Repeat the appropriate first auxiliary rather than the entire verb phrase.
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Correct answer: better
Completed sentence: The more you practice, the better you get. The + comparative ..., the + comparative ... expresses linked change: the more you practice, the easier it becomes. Use more/less with longer forms and -er with shorter ones. Repeated comparatives, such as colder and colder, express gradual change without a second clause.
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Correct answer: Despite
Completed sentence: Despite the delay, we arrived before noon. Although/even though take clauses; despite/in spite of take noun phrases or -ing. To/in order to/so as to introduce purpose infinitives; so that introduces a clause. Negative purpose uses in order not to or so as not to.
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Correct answer: broke
Completed sentence: Who broke the window? (asking for the subject) Yes/no and object questions normally use auxiliary inversion; subject questions do not add do. Negative questions can express surprise or seek confirmation. Tags and alternative questions have distinct forms, while embedded questions use statement order.
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Correct answer: She has probably left.
Correct choice: She has probably left. Frequency and certainty adverbs often follow the first auxiliary but precede a main lexical verb; manner often goes after the object. Place usually precedes time at the end. Position can change focus: only should be placed near what it limits.
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Correct answer: travelling
Completed sentence: She was exhausted because she had been travelling all day. Narratives use past simple for events, past continuous for background, past perfect simple for earlier completion and past perfect continuous for earlier ongoing activity. Establish the reference time before choosing a perfect tense; avoid shifting every verb unnecessarily.
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Correct answer: returned
Completed sentence: The lights are on. They must have returned. For past deductions, use modal + have + past participle: must have for strong belief, might/could have for possibility and can't/couldn't have for impossibility. Distinguish could have as uncertain deduction from unrealised opportunity by context.
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Correct answer: checked
Completed sentence: I'll send it when I have checked it. A present simple future time clause states when an event happens. A present perfect clause emphasises completion before the next action: when I have finished. Do not use will merely because the clause refers to the future; the main clause may contain will.
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Correct answer: believed
Completed sentence: It is believed that the plan will succeed. Reporting passives distance the writer from a claim: It is said that... or subject + is said to.... A perfect infinitive places the reported event earlier: is believed to have left. The reporting tense and the infinitive's time relationship are separate choices.
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Correct answer: travel
Completed sentence: I'd rather travel by train. Would rather takes a bare infinitive; would prefer takes to-infinitive or a noun. Prefer doing to doing compares activities; would rather do than do compares choices. A different subject after would rather uses a past form for present/future preference.
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Correct answer: confusing
Completed sentence: The instructions were confusing, so nobody understood. Participles can describe a cause or a resulting state: a confusing explanation, a confused reader; a broken window, falling leaves. -ed does not automatically mean past time, and -ing does not always describe a feeling. Choose according to the relationship with the noun.
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Correct answer: lives
Completed sentence: Do you know where she lives? Indirect questions use statement order after an introductory phrase: Could you tell me where she lives? Yes/no questions use if/whether. Remove do/does/did when they only served question inversion, but keep necessary tense or negative auxiliaries.
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Correct answer: flying
Completed sentence: At this time tomorrow, I will be flying. Future continuous uses will be + -ing for activity in progress at a future time. Future perfect uses will have + past participle for completion by a future point. By marks a deadline; at often locates an activity in progress.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: She is likely to win. Likely/unlikely are followed by to-infinitive or a that-clause with it. Bound to expresses strong expectation. Definitely and probably modify the clause: will probably, definitely won't. They indicate different levels of confidence, not proof.
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Correct answer: would
Completed sentence: If I knew the answer now, I would tell you. Second conditionals imagine present/future alternatives using if + past, would + base. Third conditionals imagine a different past using if + past perfect, would have + participle. Identify whether the imagined condition and result belong to now or the past.
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Correct answer: cut
Completed sentence: I had my hair cut yesterday. Have/get something done describes arranging for someone else to do a task, or sometimes experiencing an unwanted event. The object goes before the past participle. Change have/get for tense; do not confuse this with doing the task yourself.
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Correct answer: breaking
Completed sentence: He admitted breaking the window. Reporting verbs have specific patterns: admit/deny/suggest + -ing, agree/refuse/promise + to-infinitive, and advise/warn/remind + object + to-infinitive. Some use prepositions, such as apologise for and accuse someone of. Do not use suggest someone to do.
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Correct answer: such
Completed sentence: It was such an unusual result that we checked twice. So modifies adjectives/adverbs; such modifies noun phrases. Such a/an precedes a singular countable noun. So much/many modifies quantity. In so ... that and such ... that clauses, that introduces the consequence, not a relative clause.
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Correct answer: eaten
Completed sentence: By the time you arrive, we will have eaten. Review tense choices through reference points: a perfect form looks back, a continuous form presents an activity in progress and a simple form presents a fact or event. Future arrangements, intentions and predictions can use different forms. Time clauses normally use present forms for future reference.
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Correct answer: live
Completed sentence: I used to live abroad. Used to + base verb refers to a former habit or state. Be used to + -ing/noun describes familiarity; get used to describes the process of adapting. Change be/get for tense and subject while keeping the preposition to.
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Correct answer: were
Completed sentence: I wish I were taller. Wish/if only + past form expresses dissatisfaction with the present; + past perfect expresses regret about the past. Wish + would can complain about behaviour or express a desired change. Wish is not normally used with will for an ordinary future hope.
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Correct answer: need
Completed sentence: The unemployed need extra support. The + adjective can refer collectively to a group of people: the rich, the unemployed. These expressions normally take plural agreement and do not add -s to the adjective. An individual needs a noun, such as an unemployed person. Abstract expressions such as the unknown can be singular in meaning.
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Correct answer: used to
Completed sentence: I used to own a motorbike, but I sold it. Used to describes past habits and states no longer true. Would can describe repeated past actions once a past setting is established, but not normally a past state such as owning or believing. Neither is a normal choice for a single completed event.
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Correct answer: a beautiful old house
Correct choice: a beautiful old house Several adjectives usually follow a broad order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose, noun. This is a tendency rather than an absolute rule, and emphasis can change it. Adjectives normally remain singular even before plural nouns.
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Correct answer: salty
Completed sentence: This soup tastes salty. Linking sense verbs such as look, sound, smell, taste and feel take adjectives. Look/sound like takes a noun phrase; look as if introduces a clause. Some sense verbs also describe deliberate actions and then can use continuous forms.
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Correct answer: yet
Completed sentence: Have you finished yet? Already means earlier than expected or before now, still means continuation, and yet asks or negates completion up to a reference time. Already/still often go in mid position; yet usually goes at the end in questions and negatives. Still before a negative auxiliary stresses delay.
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Correct answer: do
Completed sentence: Could you do me a favour? Do and make occur in fixed combinations. Do covers tasks and performance: do research, do someone a favour. Make covers results: make progress, make an effort, make an appointment. A noun's meaning alone does not always predict the verb.
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Correct answer: small
Completed sentence: The room is fairly small. Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
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Correct answer: cleaning
Completed sentence: I've been cleaning all morning. Present perfect simple focuses on completion, quantity or a stable state; continuous focuses on duration or visible evidence of activity. Some verbs allow both with a change in emphasis. State verbs such as own normally stay simple.
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Correct answer: didn't
Completed sentence: We didn't need to book because the room was empty. Needn't and don't need to mean no present necessity. Didn't need to says there was no past necessity, without itself proving whether the action happened. Needn't have + past participle says the action happened but was unnecessary. Mustn't instead prohibits.
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Correct answer: will
Completed sentence: If she calls tomorrow, I will tell her. Zero conditionals describe general relationships using present forms in both clauses. First conditionals describe real future possibilities, normally with present in the if-clause and will/modal in the main clause. Future time clauses follow the same present-tense principle.
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Correct answer: been
Completed sentence: The package has been delivered. Passive constructions use be in the required tense plus a past participle. Continuous passive uses being; perfect passive uses been. Modal passive uses modal + be + participle; perfect modal passive uses modal + have been + participle. Avoid passivising intransitive verbs.
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Correct answer: to help
Completed sentence: She agreed to help us. Verb complements differ: admit/deny/avoid + -ing, agree/refuse + to-infinitive, and preposition + -ing. Some verbs change meaning: try doing tests a method, while try to do attempts a task. Perfect infinitives refer to earlier actions.
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Correct answer: of
Completed sentence: Most of my friends live nearby. Quantifiers differ in number and definiteness: both/either/neither refer to two; all/most to larger groups or amounts; no precedes a noun and none stands alone. Use of before a definite group or object pronoun. All information is singular; both people is plural.
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Correct answer: Whoever
Completed sentence: Whoever arrives first should open the door. Whatever, whoever, wherever and whenever can mean any thing/person/place/time or no matter what/who/where/when. However + adjective/adverb means no matter how. These clauses use ordinary statement order, not question inversion.
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Correct answer: can
Completed sentence: She can swim, and so can I. Auxiliaries form questions, negatives, emphasis and short responses. Do can emphasise a simple-tense statement; so/neither use inversion for agreement. Repeat the appropriate first auxiliary rather than the entire verb phrase.
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Correct answer: less
Completed sentence: The earlier we leave, the less traffic we'll meet. The + comparative ..., the + comparative ... expresses linked change: the more you practice, the easier it becomes. Use more/less with longer forms and -er with shorter ones. Repeated comparatives, such as colder and colder, express gradual change without a second clause.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: She whispered so as not to wake anyone. Although/even though take clauses; despite/in spite of take noun phrases or -ing. To/in order to/so as to introduce purpose infinitives; so that introduces a clause. Negative purpose uses in order not to or so as not to.
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Correct answer: invite
Completed sentence: Who did you invite? Yes/no and object questions normally use auxiliary inversion; subject questions do not add do. Negative questions can express surprise or seek confirmation. Tags and alternative questions have distinct forms, while embedded questions use statement order.
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Correct answer: He is usually punctual.
Correct choice: He is usually punctual. Frequency and certainty adverbs often follow the first auxiliary but precede a main lexical verb; manner often goes after the object. Place usually precedes time at the end. Position can change focus: only should be placed near what it limits.
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Correct answer: had
Completed sentence: When I arrived, they had already left. Narratives use past simple for events, past continuous for background, past perfect simple for earlier completion and past perfect continuous for earlier ongoing activity. Establish the reference time before choosing a perfect tense; avoid shifting every verb unnecessarily.
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Correct answer: seen
Completed sentence: He can't have seen it; he wasn't there. For past deductions, use modal + have + past participle: must have for strong belief, might/could have for possibility and can't/couldn't have for impossibility. Distinguish could have as uncertain deduction from unrealised opportunity by context.
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Correct answer: arrives
Completed sentence: When she arrives, we'll start. A present simple future time clause states when an event happens. A present perfect clause emphasises completion before the next action: when I have finished. Do not use will merely because the clause refers to the future; the main clause may contain will.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: She is said to live abroad. Reporting passives distance the writer from a claim: It is said that... or subject + is said to.... A perfect infinitive places the reported event earlier: is believed to have left. The reporting tense and the infinitive's time relationship are separate choices.
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Correct answer: to stay
Completed sentence: She'd prefer to stay at home. Would rather takes a bare infinitive; would prefer takes to-infinitive or a noun. Prefer doing to doing compares activities; would rather do than do compares choices. A different subject after would rather uses a past form for present/future preference.
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Correct answer: broken
Completed sentence: The broken window needs replacing. (someone broke it) Participles can describe a cause or a resulting state: a confusing explanation, a confused reader; a broken window, falling leaves. -ed does not automatically mean past time, and -ing does not always describe a feeling. Choose according to the relationship with the noun.
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Correct answer: where
Completed sentence: Could you tell me where the station is? Indirect questions use statement order after an introductory phrase: Could you tell me where she lives? Yes/no questions use if/whether. Remove do/does/did when they only served question inversion, but keep necessary tense or negative auxiliaries.
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Correct answer: finished
Completed sentence: By Friday, she will have finished the report. Future continuous uses will be + -ing for activity in progress at a future time. Future perfect uses will have + past participle for completion by a future point. By marks a deadline; at often locates an activity in progress.
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Correct answer: that
Completed sentence: It is unlikely that they will agree. Likely/unlikely are followed by to-infinitive or a that-clause with it. Bound to expresses strong expectation. Definitely and probably modify the clause: will probably, definitely won't. They indicate different levels of confidence, not proof.
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Correct answer: would
Completed sentence: If I had known yesterday, I would have told you. Second conditionals imagine present/future alternatives using if + past, would + base. Third conditionals imagine a different past using if + past perfect, would have + participle. Identify whether the imagined condition and result belong to now or the past.
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Correct answer: painted
Completed sentence: We are having the kitchen painted. Have/get something done describes arranging for someone else to do a task, or sometimes experiencing an unwanted event. The object goes before the past participle. Change have/get for tense; do not confuse this with doing the task yourself.
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Correct answer: to sign
Completed sentence: She refused to sign the form. Reporting verbs have specific patterns: admit/deny/suggest + -ing, agree/refuse/promise + to-infinitive, and advise/warn/remind + object + to-infinitive. Some use prepositions, such as apologise for and accuse someone of. Do not use suggest someone to do.
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Correct answer: so
Completed sentence: He spoke so quietly that I couldn't hear. So modifies adjectives/adverbs; such modifies noun phrases. Such a/an precedes a singular countable noun. So much/many modifies quantity. In so ... that and such ... that clauses, that introduces the consequence, not a relative clause.