SELECTIVIDAD GRAMMAR REVISION 2023

1. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: (0.1 each)

1.1 “Be careful, you... hurt yourself!” have to / should / might / must
1.2. “Emily invited some friends to her birthday dinner but… declined.” everyone/ neither / anyone / everything
1.3 “We had to learn all the poems… heart.” from / by / with / in
1.4 “A private detective is looking… the matter from another perspective.” on / into / in / from

2. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:

2.1 “Why don’t we go out? I fancy… a drink with you.” (have)
2.2 “When they arrived home, they realised they… the door open.” (leave)
2.3 “At this time tomorrow I … my birthday” (celebrate)
2.4 “There is no point in … that job.” (take)

3. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:

3.1 “I would like… more time with you.” (spend)
3.2 “This time next month we … Mount Kilimanjaro (climb)
3.3 “He will call you when he … home” (get)
3.4 “We … over 15 miles by the end of today” (walk)
3.5 “Do you think first-class travel … less in the future?” (cost)
3.6 “The lawyer agreed… the document.” (sign)
3.7 “The new talent show… before I got home.” (start)

4. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:

4.1 “The final exam consists… ten brief questions.” on / from / into / of
4.2 “I apologised… being late at work.” for / with / by / from
4.3 “I thought she could get… her illness easily.” with / about / over / up
4.4 “He went into surgery… a heart attack.” unless / so that / due to / in spite

5. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:

5.1 “I thought she could get … her illsess easily” with / about / over / up
5.2 “Have you ever been... New York?” at / in / to / on
5.3 “How can we get… our message more clearly?.” up / across / from / at
5.4 “I was in the shopping centre last week and I ran … an old friend of mine” in / out / up / into
5.5 “The desk is closing! Hurry up or we won’t be able to check… for out flight” on / up / in / out

6. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:

6.1 “I am looking forward… seeing you next Monday.” at / to / in / by
6.2 “My sister… her car fixed yesterday.” made / did / didn’t / had
6.3 “The judge had her sentence...” (photocopy)

7. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS

7.1 Has she ever... to Edinburgh?” (be)
7.2 “As soon as he... to Madrid, he will call.” (get)
7.3 “Her dog was barking when she... this morning.” (wake up)
7.4 “They... since they bought the phone. I think they will finally get the refund.” (complain)
7.5 I’m sure Ann ________________ (be) a famous singer one day.
7.6 What would you like to drink? I think I ______________ (have) a cola.

8. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:

8.1 You... have seen Helen at work yesterday. She was away on vacation.” can’t / may / mustn’t / must
8.2 “I thought she could get... her illness easily.” with / about / over / up
8.3 “He went into surgery... a heart attack.” unless / so that / due to / in spite

9. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES USING THE WORDS IN BRACKETS TO GIVE THE SAME MEANING.
9.1 Richard wasn’t able to find a job in his home town. Richard ___________ a job in his home town.
(manage)
 9.2 I don’t think visitors can go into that building.I don’t think visitors ___________ into that building.
(allowed)
9.3 It’s possible that air pollution causes serious health problems. Air pollution______________ serious
health problems. (may)

10. TURN THIS SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE:

10.1 “The writer was asked to sign books after her lecture.”
10.2 “Life quality is being improved by several interesting discoveries.”
10.3 “The search was given up after three hours.”
10.4 “The crime had already been investigated.”
10.5 “The document could not be sent in time by the secretary.”

11. TURN THIS SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE:

11.1 “They are going to pay Lisa’s debts as soon as the money gets through.”
11.2 “They are making many arrangements to celebrate the Erasmus anniversary.”
11.3 “They didn’t give us the ticket at the shop.”
11.4 “Someone has to inform the students about the situation.”
11.5 “You should keep the boxes in the fridge.”
11.6 “Someone has to inform the students about the situation.”
11.7 “A new baby-sitter is looking after the baby this weekend.”
11.8 “The company will have launched the campaign before Christmas.”

12. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS:

12.1 “Tom brought the vanilla cupcakes last weekend.”
12.2 “Lisa teaches her students vocabulary by showing them pictures.”
12.3 “The pit where I fell was 2 metres deep.”
12.4 “They went to France on holiday by saving every cent.”
12.5 “She phones Richard every morning.”
12.6 “He has been waiting in the queue for thirty minutes.”
12.7 “There were twenty-three children at the birthday party”
12.8 “They informed her about the project”
12.9 “He visits his uncle every two weeks”

13. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY:
13.1 “Paris is the city. I would love to spend my honeymoon there.”
13.2 “The headmaster has taken measures to promote equality between boys and girls. He is very worried about
gender issues”.
13.3 “Henry VIII married six times. He became king in 1509.”
13.4 “The sound was like a shot. It woke me up.”
13.5 “The typical houses in Amsterdam have a narrow façade. Their roofs are very peculiar.”
13.6 “George has just joined the chess club. His brother plays football with me”.

14 REWRITE THE NEXT SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED:
14.1 “Jane probably worked at that hotel last summer.” Jane may…

“People predict that many actors will lose work because of digital technology”.
14.2 It…
14.3 Many actors…

“They estimate that the film made 100 million dollars on its opening weekend”.
14.3 It…
14.4 The film…

15. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED:
15.1 “I regret not going to your birthday party yesterday.” I wish...
15.2 “I can’t swim very well”. I wish…
15.3 “She hasn’t seen her parents for two years.” The last …
15.4 “I wish I had gone by car.” I regret...
15.5 :“We have never met anyone as famous as he is.” He...
15.6 “Although it was raining, we went out.” Despite …
15.7 “They should have emailed me the festival programme by now”. I…
15.8 “It was not right of him to blame me for what he did.” He shouldn’t…
15.9 “It was such a good cake that that nothing was left.” The cake was…
15.10 “I didn’t notice that the man was in trouble, so I didn’t help him.” If I...

16. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:

16.1 “ If I had had the chance to study abroad, …”
16.2 Alex is quite lazy. He failed his maths test last week. If Alex …”
16.3 “He isn’t going to lose any weight if he doesn't change his habits”. Unless…
16.4 “Unless she gives up smoking, ...”
16.5 “If they had taken the bus, …”
16.6 “Don’t take your umbrella if...”
17. HERE ARE TWO MISTAKES IN THESE SENTENCES. FIND THE MISTAKES AND REWRITE THE SENTENCE
CORRECTLY:
17.1 “Everybody here are looking forward to see you.”
17.2 “My uncle didn’t seen nobody breaking into my house last night.”
17.3 “You don’t work more hard than she do.”
17.4 “The woman must had seen the crime because she was stood next to the thief.”

18. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH OR INDIRECT SPEECH:
18.1 “‘I’m sorry I have torn your shirt,’ Mary said.”
18.2 “Let’s have some pizza”, Jake said.
18.3 “Don’t open that box”, my boss ordered me.
18.4 “‘Don’t expect that Peter will do all the housework’, Mary told me.”
18.5 “‘Let’s go to the playground,’ my closest classmate said.”
18.6 “‘Please, fill in the form before you leave,’ said the receptionist to the customer.”
18.7 “It was wonderful to meet them last night,” Susan exclaimed.

19. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH:

19.1 “A foreigner asked me how far the City Hall was.”
19.2 “She asked me whether I had understood the film.”
20. USE THE WORDS IN THE BOXES TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE. USE ALL AND ONLY THE WORDS IN
THE BOXES WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM:

everything not it to is remember read possible we

don’t going like I out them feel with

written book could better have she not a

up ago husband years gave four cigars my smoking