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By next June, I ___ my degree.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: will have completed
The future perfect describes completion before a future deadline.
If she had taken the offer, she ___ in Rome now.
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Correct answer: would be living
A mixed conditional links a different past to an imagined present.
The suspect is believed ___ the country yesterday.
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Correct answer: to have left
A perfect infinitive marks an event earlier than the reporting belief.
___ the instructions, he began the experiment.
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Correct answer: Having read
Having plus a past participle marks an earlier completed action.
I wish I ___ so much money last weekend.
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Correct answer: had not spent
A past regret after wish takes the past perfect.
The project went ahead ___ several objections.
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Correct answer: despite
Despite takes a noun phrase.
No sooner had we left ___ it began to rain.
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Correct answer: than
No sooner pairs with than.
The report needs ___ before publication.
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Correct answer: revising
Need plus -ing has a passive meaning: it needs to be revised.
I would have called if I ___ your number.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: had known
Use the past perfect in the if clause of a third conditional.
Not only ___ late, but he also forgot the tickets.
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Correct answer: was he
A fronted negative phrase triggers subject–auxiliary inversion.
She denied ___ the confidential file.
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Correct answer: sharing
Deny is followed by an -ing form.
The house is said ___ haunted.
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Correct answer: to be
A passive reporting structure takes a to-infinitive.
I will lend it to you ___ you return it on Monday.
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Correct answer: provided that
Provided that introduces a condition.
The more you practice, ___ it becomes.
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Correct answer: the easier
Paired comparatives use the plus comparative in both parts.
He acts as if he ___ everything.
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Correct answer: knew
A past form can mark an unreal present comparison after as if.
By next June, I ___ my degree.
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Correct answer: will have completed
The future perfect describes completion before a future deadline.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: would be living
A mixed conditional links a different past to an imagined present.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: to have left
A perfect infinitive marks an event earlier than the reporting belief.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: Having read
Having plus a past participle marks an earlier completed action.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: had not spent
A past regret after wish takes the past perfect.
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Correct answer: despite
Despite takes a noun phrase.
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Correct answer: than
No sooner pairs with than.
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Correct answer: revising
Need plus -ing has a passive meaning: it needs to be revised.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: had known
Use the past perfect in the if clause of a third conditional.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: was he
A fronted negative phrase triggers subject–auxiliary inversion.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: sharing
Deny is followed by an -ing form.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: to be
A passive reporting structure takes a to-infinitive.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: provided that
Provided that introduces a condition.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: the easier
Paired comparatives use the plus comparative in both parts.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: knew
A past form can mark an unreal present comparison after as if.
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