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She was exhausted because she had been ___ all night.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: working
Completed sentence: She was exhausted because she had been working all night. Narrative tenses establish event order and background; used to describes former habits or states, while would can describe repeated past actions after a past setting is established. A single completed event normally uses past simple. Past perfect continuous can explain a later past result.
By Friday, we will have ___ the project.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: completed
Completed sentence: By Friday, we will have completed the project. English future reference includes will for predictions or instant decisions, going to for intentions/evidence, present continuous for arrangements, present simple for timetables, future continuous for ongoing activity and future perfect for completion by a point.
You ___ disclose this password; it is prohibited.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: mustn't
Completed sentence: You mustn't disclose this password; it is prohibited. Distinguish permission, obligation, prohibition and lack of necessity. Mustn't prohibits; needn't removes necessity. Needn't have describes unnecessary completed action; didn't need to only states absence of necessity. Be allowed to and have to supply forms unavailable to some modals.
___ I known, I would have helped.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Had
Completed sentence: Had I known, I would have helped. Conditionals range from general truths to hypothetical present and past alternatives. Mixed forms connect different times. Unless means if not; provided that sets a condition. Formal inversion omits if: Had I known..., Were I..., Should you need.... Invert an auxiliary, not an ordinary past lexical verb.
He is alleged to have ___ the money.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: taken
Completed sentence: He is alleged to have taken the money. Passive reporting and distancing avoid presenting a claim as direct fact: it is alleged that, is believed to, appears to. Use a perfect infinitive for earlier events and a continuous infinitive for ongoing activity. Attribution is not proof that a claim is true.
They made us ___ outside.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: wait
Completed sentence: They made us wait outside. Verb + object patterns include want/ask/allow + object + to-infinitive, make/let + object + bare infinitive, and prevent + object + from + -ing. See/hear + object + -ing can focus on an ongoing action. Passive make changes to be made to do.
They looked at ___ across the table. (mutual action)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: each other
Completed sentence: They looked at each other across the table. (mutual action) Reflexive pronouns refer back to the same person as the subject; reciprocal pronouns each other/one another describe mutual action. By oneself means alone. Emphatic reflexives stress personal involvement, not a separate object.
The colleague to ___ I spoke was helpful.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: whom
Completed sentence: The colleague to whom I spoke was helpful. Defining relatives restrict reference; non-defining relatives add parenthetical information with commas. That is excluded from non-defining clauses and after a fronted preposition. Whom is formal for a person as object; which can refer to an entire previous clause.
___ seems to be a mistake.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: There
Completed sentence: There seems to be a mistake. Existential there introduces presence or occurrence; anticipatory it holds the subject position before a to-infinitive or that-clause. There can occur with seem/appear and perfect forms. It is also used for weather, distance and cleft focus, but is not an existence marker.
___ you finished?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Have
Completed sentence: Have you finished? Have is an auxiliary in perfect tenses, a main verb for possession/experience, and part of have to for obligation. Auxiliary have inverts directly; main-verb have commonly uses do. Causative have takes object + participle. Have got has its own question pattern.
This version is much ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: better
Completed sentence: This version is much better. Use much/far/a lot to emphasise comparative difference and slightly/a little/a bit to reduce it. Even can mark a further difference. Very normally modifies a plain adjective, not a comparative. No better means not better; not nearly as ... as marks a large shortfall.
There is a solution ___ this problem.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: There is a solution to this problem. Noun-preposition combinations are lexical patterns: a reason for, an increase in, an effect on. The preposition takes a noun or -ing form. A related verb may require a different pattern, so learn the noun phrase as a unit. The reference list below contains 50 combinations with examples.
___ the weather was bad, we continued.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Although
Completed sentence: Although the weather was bad, we continued. Clause linkers and prepositions have different complements: although + clause, despite + noun/-ing; because + clause, owing to + noun; so that + clause, in order to + infinitive. Such/so ... that expresses result. Avoid combining incompatible patterns.
It was Jo ___ called, not Eva.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: who
Completed sentence: It was Jo who called, not Eva. Cleft sentences divide a message to focus attention. It-clefts use It is/was + focus + that/who; wh-clefts use What ... is/was.... All-clefts focus on an entire limited need. Preserve the tense and make the focused phrase fit the remaining clause.
The train is due ___ arrive at six.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: The train is due to arrive at six. Be about to indicates an imminent action; be due to refers to an expected or scheduled event; be on the point/verge of takes -ing or a noun. Be to + infinitive expresses a formal arrangement or instruction. These expressions are not interchangeable in every context.
He must have ___ the message; he replied.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: received
Completed sentence: He must have received the message; he replied. Modal deductions use must, may/might/could and can't according to certainty. Add be + -ing for present ongoing activity and have + participle for past deduction. Mustn't is normally prohibition. A past modal does not simply mean a less certain present modal.
If I'd accepted that job, I ___ in Rome now.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: would live
Completed sentence: If I'd accepted that job, I would live in Rome now. Mixed conditionals connect a past condition with a present result or a present situation with a past result. Use the form appropriate to each time, not a single template mechanically. Explicit time phrases help distinguish these from second and third conditionals.
She was ___ a scholarship.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: offered
Completed sentence: She was offered a scholarship. Some ditransitive verbs allow either object as the passive subject: She was given a prize; a prize was given to her. With buy/make, for often replaces to. Not every two-object pattern transfers freely; explain requires a thing + to-person structure.
She seems to have ___ the deadline.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: missed
Completed sentence: She seems to have missed the deadline. Perfect infinitives/gerunds refer to earlier actions, passive forms put the action on the understood subject, and continuous infinitives highlight duration. Compare to do, to be doing, to have done, to be done and to have been done. The governing verb still determines infinitive versus gerund.
If anyone calls, tell ___ I'll reply.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: them
Completed sentence: If anyone calls, tell them I'll reply. Singular they is widely used for a person whose gender is unknown, irrelevant or identified with they. Its verb agreement follows they: they are, they have. Everyone/each person takes a singular verb, while a later they can refer back. Use gender-neutral roles such as chair where appropriate.
She was exhausted because she had been ___ all night.
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Correct answer: working
Completed sentence: She was exhausted because she had been working all night. Narrative tenses establish event order and background; used to describes former habits or states, while would can describe repeated past actions after a past setting is established. A single completed event normally uses past simple. Past perfect continuous can explain a later past result.
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Correct answer: completed
Completed sentence: By Friday, we will have completed the project. English future reference includes will for predictions or instant decisions, going to for intentions/evidence, present continuous for arrangements, present simple for timetables, future continuous for ongoing activity and future perfect for completion by a point.
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Correct answer: mustn't
Completed sentence: You mustn't disclose this password; it is prohibited. Distinguish permission, obligation, prohibition and lack of necessity. Mustn't prohibits; needn't removes necessity. Needn't have describes unnecessary completed action; didn't need to only states absence of necessity. Be allowed to and have to supply forms unavailable to some modals.
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Correct answer: Had
Completed sentence: Had I known, I would have helped. Conditionals range from general truths to hypothetical present and past alternatives. Mixed forms connect different times. Unless means if not; provided that sets a condition. Formal inversion omits if: Had I known..., Were I..., Should you need.... Invert an auxiliary, not an ordinary past lexical verb.
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Correct answer: taken
Completed sentence: He is alleged to have taken the money. Passive reporting and distancing avoid presenting a claim as direct fact: it is alleged that, is believed to, appears to. Use a perfect infinitive for earlier events and a continuous infinitive for ongoing activity. Attribution is not proof that a claim is true.
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Correct answer: wait
Completed sentence: They made us wait outside. Verb + object patterns include want/ask/allow + object + to-infinitive, make/let + object + bare infinitive, and prevent + object + from + -ing. See/hear + object + -ing can focus on an ongoing action. Passive make changes to be made to do.
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Correct answer: each other
Completed sentence: They looked at each other across the table. (mutual action) Reflexive pronouns refer back to the same person as the subject; reciprocal pronouns each other/one another describe mutual action. By oneself means alone. Emphatic reflexives stress personal involvement, not a separate object.
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Correct answer: whom
Completed sentence: The colleague to whom I spoke was helpful. Defining relatives restrict reference; non-defining relatives add parenthetical information with commas. That is excluded from non-defining clauses and after a fronted preposition. Whom is formal for a person as object; which can refer to an entire previous clause.
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Correct answer: There
Completed sentence: There seems to be a mistake. Existential there introduces presence or occurrence; anticipatory it holds the subject position before a to-infinitive or that-clause. There can occur with seem/appear and perfect forms. It is also used for weather, distance and cleft focus, but is not an existence marker.
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Correct answer: Have
Completed sentence: Have you finished? Have is an auxiliary in perfect tenses, a main verb for possession/experience, and part of have to for obligation. Auxiliary have inverts directly; main-verb have commonly uses do. Causative have takes object + participle. Have got has its own question pattern.
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Correct answer: better
Completed sentence: This version is much better. Use much/far/a lot to emphasise comparative difference and slightly/a little/a bit to reduce it. Even can mark a further difference. Very normally modifies a plain adjective, not a comparative. No better means not better; not nearly as ... as marks a large shortfall.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: There is a solution to this problem. Noun-preposition combinations are lexical patterns: a reason for, an increase in, an effect on. The preposition takes a noun or -ing form. A related verb may require a different pattern, so learn the noun phrase as a unit. The reference list below contains 50 combinations with examples.
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Correct answer: Although
Completed sentence: Although the weather was bad, we continued. Clause linkers and prepositions have different complements: although + clause, despite + noun/-ing; because + clause, owing to + noun; so that + clause, in order to + infinitive. Such/so ... that expresses result. Avoid combining incompatible patterns.
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Correct answer: who
Completed sentence: It was Jo who called, not Eva. Cleft sentences divide a message to focus attention. It-clefts use It is/was + focus + that/who; wh-clefts use What ... is/was.... All-clefts focus on an entire limited need. Preserve the tense and make the focused phrase fit the remaining clause.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: The train is due to arrive at six. Be about to indicates an imminent action; be due to refers to an expected or scheduled event; be on the point/verge of takes -ing or a noun. Be to + infinitive expresses a formal arrangement or instruction. These expressions are not interchangeable in every context.
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Correct answer: received
Completed sentence: He must have received the message; he replied. Modal deductions use must, may/might/could and can't according to certainty. Add be + -ing for present ongoing activity and have + participle for past deduction. Mustn't is normally prohibition. A past modal does not simply mean a less certain present modal.
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Correct answer: would live
Completed sentence: If I'd accepted that job, I would live in Rome now. Mixed conditionals connect a past condition with a present result or a present situation with a past result. Use the form appropriate to each time, not a single template mechanically. Explicit time phrases help distinguish these from second and third conditionals.
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Correct answer: offered
Completed sentence: She was offered a scholarship. Some ditransitive verbs allow either object as the passive subject: She was given a prize; a prize was given to her. With buy/make, for often replaces to. Not every two-object pattern transfers freely; explain requires a thing + to-person structure.
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Correct answer: missed
Completed sentence: She seems to have missed the deadline. Perfect infinitives/gerunds refer to earlier actions, passive forms put the action on the understood subject, and continuous infinitives highlight duration. Compare to do, to be doing, to have done, to be done and to have been done. The governing verb still determines infinitive versus gerund.
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Correct answer: them
Completed sentence: If anyone calls, tell them I'll reply. Singular they is widely used for a person whose gender is unknown, irrelevant or identified with they. Its verb agreement follows they: they are, they have. Everyone/each person takes a singular verb, while a later they can refer back. Use gender-neutral roles such as chair where appropriate.
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Correct answer: one
Completed sentence: I need a pen. Do you have one? Ellipsis leaves out recoverable words, often after an auxiliary: I can, but she can't. Substitution uses one/ones for count nouns and so/not for clauses: I think so, I hope not. Do so can replace an action, but is unsuitable for many state meanings.
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Correct answer: time-consuming
Completed sentence: It is a time-consuming process. Compound adjectives often join words before a noun with hyphens: well-known, time-consuming, five-year-old. Number units normally stay singular. Adverb + participle combinations with an -ly adverb normally do not need a hyphen. Some forms are lexicalised; consult a dictionary for unusual compounds.
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Correct answer: therefore
Completed sentence: The road was closed; therefore, we took a detour. Discourse markers signal relationships: however/nevertheless contrast, therefore/consequently result, moreover addition, and for instance example. They do not replace grammatical clause conjunctions without punctuation changes. In formal writing, a semicolon or full stop can precede however between independent clauses.
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Correct answer: would
Completed sentence: He said he would call the next day. Future in the past reports a future viewed from a past reference point. Will often becomes would; an earlier intention uses was/were going to, and an earlier arrangement can use past continuous. These forms do not by themselves guarantee that the future event happened.
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Correct answer: close
Completed sentence: I heard her close the door. (the complete action) Linking sense verbs take adjectives; like introduces a noun phrase and as if/as though introduces a clause. With hear/see + object, a bare infinitive often presents a whole event, while -ing presents activity in progress. Deliberate tasting/smelling can be continuous.
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Correct answer: listened
Completed sentence: I wish I had listened more carefully. Wish/if only + past refers to unreal present situations; + past perfect refers to regret. Would rather + different subject uses past for present/future preference. It's time + past form expresses overdue action. Wish + would often targets a desired change in behaviour.
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Correct answer: shoe shops
Completed sentence: There are two shoe shops nearby. Compound nouns often use a singular modifying noun: shoe shop, car door. Possessive 's commonly links people and relationships; of often describes parts or inanimate relationships. Plural compound heads take the plural, as in sisters-in-law. Usage is partly conventional.
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Correct answer: have
Completed sentence: Never have I seen such chaos. Fronted negative or restrictive adverbials trigger auxiliary-subject inversion: Never have I seen.... Add do/does/did when needed. Not until... inverts the following main clause, not the until clause. Hardly ... when and no sooner ... than describe close sequence.
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Correct answer: Having finished
Completed sentence: Having finished the report, she went home. (completed first) Participle clauses compress information and normally share their understood subject with the main clause. -ing commonly expresses active meaning; past participles commonly express passive meaning. Having + participle emphasises earlier completion. Avoid dangling clauses whose subject does not match.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: I'll get someone to check it. Get can mean obtain, become, arrive or cause something to happen. Get someone to do persuades/arranges an action; get something done arranges a service. Get + past participle can form a conversational passive, often focusing on an event or change.
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Correct answer: in case
Completed sentence: Take a charger in case the battery runs low. (precaution) Unless means if not, even if means regardless of whether, provided/as long as impose conditions and in case introduces a precaution. Do not substitute in case for if without changing meaning. Suppose/supposing introduces a hypothetical situation.
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Correct answer: weeks'
Completed sentence: I need two weeks' notice. Possessive forms express time and distance: a day's work, two weeks' notice, tomorrow's meeting. Singular time units take 's; regular plurals take a final apostrophe. Contrast a two-week course, where the attributive unit stays singular and has no possessive apostrophe.
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Correct answer: used to
Completed sentence: We used to own a cottage before moving abroad. Narrative tenses establish event order and background; used to describes former habits or states, while would can describe repeated past actions after a past setting is established. A single completed event normally uses past simple. Past perfect continuous can explain a later past result.
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Correct answer: flying
Completed sentence: At noon tomorrow, I will be flying to Paris. English future reference includes will for predictions or instant decisions, going to for intentions/evidence, present continuous for arrangements, present simple for timetables, future continuous for ongoing activity and future perfect for completion by a point.
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Correct answer: needn't
Completed sentence: We needn't have booked; there were plenty of seats. (we did book) Distinguish permission, obligation, prohibition and lack of necessity. Mustn't prohibits; needn't removes necessity. Needn't have describes unnecessary completed action; didn't need to only states absence of necessity. Be allowed to and have to supply forms unavailable to some modals.
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Correct answer: Should
Completed sentence: Should you need assistance, call us. Conditionals range from general truths to hypothetical present and past alternatives. Mixed forms connect different times. Unless means if not; provided that sets a condition. Formal inversion omits if: Had I known..., Were I..., Should you need.... Invert an auxiliary, not an ordinary past lexical verb.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: The company is believed to be expanding. Passive reporting and distancing avoid presenting a claim as direct fact: it is alleged that, is believed to, appears to. Use a perfect infinitive for earlier events and a continuous infinitive for ongoing activity. Attribution is not proof that a claim is true.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: We were made to wait outside. Verb + object patterns include want/ask/allow + object + to-infinitive, make/let + object + bare infinitive, and prevent + object + from + -ing. See/hear + object + -ing can focus on an ongoing action. Passive make changes to be made to do.
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Correct answer: herself
Completed sentence: She prepared the meal herself. (without help) Reflexive pronouns refer back to the same person as the subject; reciprocal pronouns each other/one another describe mutual action. By oneself means alone. Emphatic reflexives stress personal involvement, not a separate object.
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Correct answer: which
Completed sentence: He missed the train, which annoyed him. Defining relatives restrict reference; non-defining relatives add parenthetical information with commas. That is excluded from non-defining clauses and after a fronted preposition. Whom is formal for a person as object; which can refer to an entire previous clause.
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Correct answer: It
Completed sentence: It is important to check the figures. Existential there introduces presence or occurrence; anticipatory it holds the subject position before a to-infinitive or that-clause. There can occur with seem/appear and perfect forms. It is also used for weather, distance and cleft focus, but is not an existence marker.
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Correct answer: Does
Completed sentence: Does she have a car? Have is an auxiliary in perfect tenses, a main verb for possession/experience, and part of have to for obligation. Auxiliary have inverts directly; main-verb have commonly uses do. Causative have takes object + participle. Have got has its own question pattern.
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Correct answer: larger
Completed sentence: The new room is slightly larger than the old one. Use much/far/a lot to emphasise comparative difference and slightly/a little/a bit to reduce it. Even can mark a further difference. Very normally modifies a plain adjective, not a comparative. No better means not better; not nearly as ... as marks a large shortfall.
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Correct answer: in
Completed sentence: We noticed an increase in demand. Noun-preposition combinations are lexical patterns: a reason for, an increase in, an effect on. The preposition takes a noun or -ing form. A related verb may require a different pattern, so learn the noun phrase as a unit. The reference list below contains 50 combinations with examples.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: The match was cancelled owing to heavy rain. Clause linkers and prepositions have different complements: although + clause, despite + noun/-ing; because + clause, owing to + noun; so that + clause, in order to + infinitive. Such/so ... that expresses result. Avoid combining incompatible patterns.
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Correct answer: is
Completed sentence: What I need is a holiday. Cleft sentences divide a message to focus attention. It-clefts use It is/was + focus + that/who; wh-clefts use What ... is/was.... All-clefts focus on an entire limited need. Preserve the tense and make the focused phrase fit the remaining clause.
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Correct answer: leaving
Completed sentence: She was on the point of leaving. Be about to indicates an imminent action; be due to refers to an expected or scheduled event; be on the point/verge of takes -ing or a noun. Be to + infinitive expresses a formal arrangement or instruction. These expressions are not interchangeable in every context.
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Correct answer: working
Completed sentence: She might be working from home today. Modal deductions use must, may/might/could and can't according to certainty. Add be + -ing for present ongoing activity and have + participle for past deduction. Mustn't is normally prohibition. A past modal does not simply mean a less certain present modal.
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Correct answer: would have
Completed sentence: If she weren't afraid of flying, she would have joined us last week. Mixed conditionals connect a past condition with a present result or a present situation with a past result. Use the form appropriate to each time, not a single template mechanically. Explicit time phrases help distinguish these from second and third conditionals.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: A letter was sent to all applicants. Some ditransitive verbs allow either object as the passive subject: She was given a prize; a prize was given to her. With buy/make, for often replaces to. Not every two-object pattern transfers freely; explain requires a thing + to-person structure.
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Correct answer: treated
Completed sentence: He resents being treated like a child. Perfect infinitives/gerunds refer to earlier actions, passive forms put the action on the understood subject, and continuous infinitives highlight duration. Compare to do, to be doing, to have done, to be done and to have been done. The governing verb still determines infinitive versus gerund.
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Correct answer: has
Completed sentence: Every student has an account. Singular they is widely used for a person whose gender is unknown, irrelevant or identified with they. Its verb agreement follows they: they are, they have. Everyone/each person takes a singular verb, while a later they can refer back. Use gender-neutral roles such as chair where appropriate.
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Correct answer: not
Completed sentence: Will it rain? I hope not. (negative reply) Ellipsis leaves out recoverable words, often after an auxiliary: I can, but she can't. Substitution uses one/ones for count nouns and so/not for clauses: I think so, I hope not. Do so can replace an action, but is unsuitable for many state meanings.
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Correct answer: well-known
Completed sentence: She is a well-known author. Compound adjectives often join words before a noun with hyphens: well-known, time-consuming, five-year-old. Number units normally stay singular. Adverb + participle combinations with an -ly adverb normally do not need a hyphen. Some forms are lexicalised; consult a dictionary for unusual compounds.
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Correct answer: Nevertheless
Completed sentence: The task was difficult. Nevertheless, she completed it. Discourse markers signal relationships: however/nevertheless contrast, therefore/consequently result, moreover addition, and for instance example. They do not replace grammatical clause conjunctions without punctuation changes. In formal writing, a semicolon or full stop can precede however between independent clauses.
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Correct answer: resign
Completed sentence: I was going to resign, but I changed my mind. Future in the past reports a future viewed from a past reference point. Will often becomes would; an earlier intention uses was/were going to, and an earlier arrangement can use past continuous. These forms do not by themselves guarantee that the future event happened.
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Correct answer: running
Completed sentence: I saw him running across the square. (in progress) Linking sense verbs take adjectives; like introduces a noun phrase and as if/as though introduces a clause. With hear/see + object, a bare infinitive often presents a whole event, while -ing presents activity in progress. Deliberate tasting/smelling can be continuous.
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Correct answer: came
Completed sentence: I'd rather you came tomorrow. Wish/if only + past refers to unreal present situations; + past perfect refers to regret. Would rather + different subject uses past for present/future preference. It's time + past form expresses overdue action. Wish + would often targets a desired change in behaviour.
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Correct answer: sisters-in-law
Completed sentence: My two sisters-in-law are visiting. (sister-in-law) Compound nouns often use a singular modifying noun: shoe shop, car door. Possessive 's commonly links people and relationships; of often describes parts or inanimate relationships. Plural compound heads take the plural, as in sisters-in-law. Usage is partly conventional.
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Correct answer: does
Completed sentence: Rarely does she complain. Fronted negative or restrictive adverbials trigger auxiliary-subject inversion: Never have I seen.... Add do/does/did when needed. Not until... inverts the following main clause, not the until clause. Hardly ... when and no sooner ... than describe close sequence.