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File 4 Grammar Check

Students Book Grammar Summary pages 148149

7 If you chop the vegetables small theyll taste better.

1 Adjective order

Put the words in the correct order.

8 If we go to bed early well get up early.

EXAMPLE

blue gorgeous flowers large

gorgeous large blue flowers

9 If the music is loud hell complain a lot.

1 trousers ugly cotton red

10 If the cat sits quietly hell catch more birds.

2 second-hand car old

.
.

3 camera German expensive

4 short pretty dress linen

3 wish + past simple/past perfect, + would +

infinitive
Write I wish statements for each sentence.

5 Japanese beautiful scarf silk

EXAMPLE

I cant afford a new car.

I wish I could afford a new car.
1 Id like to be on holiday.

6 black and white old awful TV

2 Why doesnt my daughter talk to me?

7 young shop assistant good-looking

3 Oh, no! I didnt turn the water off!

8 woollen warm coat long lovely

4 Id like a DVD player.

9 new hideous wallpaper patterned

5 Id like to be able to scuba dive.

10 plastic raincoat cheap

6 Why dont you eat the food I cook you?

2 the the + comparative adjective/adverb

Rewrite the sentences using the... the...

7 Working in London is terrible.

EXAMPLE

8 Oh no! Its raining and I havent got my umbrella.

If you are hungry you eat more.

The hungrier you are the more you eat.

9 I didnt learn to ride when I was young.

1 If I walk fast I get out of breath.

2 If the sun is hot you get burned.

4 If you do a lot of practice youll play the piano

better.

5 If we work hard well finish sooner.

6 If we run fast well get there quickly.

photocopiable

10 Travelling by train to Scotland is too slow. Its

better by plane.

3 If the house is tidy its nice to live in.

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