English Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises

Posted on Apr 30, 2024 in English

Phrasal Verbs and Idioms

Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with the correct phrasal verb or idiom.

  1. The music is too loud. Can you turn it down?
  2. Her parents brought her up to be polite and respectful.
  3. I’d like to take you out to dinner tonight.
  4. I need someone to back me up on this project.
  5. Don’t give up on your dreams.
  6. Please put down your phone and listen to me.
  7. It’s important to look back on your experiences and learn from them.

Exercise 2: Match the phrasal verbs and idioms with their meanings.

  1. Con artist
  2. Let off
  3. Lost track of
  4. Steady
  5. Got away
  6. Valuables
  1. Was not so motivated
  2. Ask his a sculpture
  3. Enough water for all
  4. The police will investigate it
  5. Don’t sit down on it
  6. What it seems

Tenses and Reported Speech

Exercise 3: Choose the correct tense of the verb.

  1. He may not turn up for the meeting.
  2. The tattoo gave the suspect away.
  3. Don’t bring up the burglary in front of the children.
  4. Please back me up when I talk to the boss.
  5. The show must go on.
  6. They are giving everything away for free.

Exercise 4: Rewrite the sentences in reported speech.

  1. Sophie complained, “I can’t do that then unless everyone helps me.”
  2. The reporter asked, “How much money did they get away with?”
  3. The tour guide warned us, “Don’t walk there alone at night.”
  4. The suspect claimed, “I wasn’t there at the time.”
  5. My mother reminded me, “Don’t forget about your appointment tomorrow morning.”

Conditional Sentences

Exercise 5: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

  1. If you had the chance, would you travel the world?
  2. I would have been watching the game if I had known it was on.
  3. Many people are sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
  4. Which of these books have you read?
  5. Several plays are performed at the theatre every week.
  6. I wouldn’t have visited that country if I had known about the political situation.

Relative Clauses

Exercise 6: Choose the correct relative pronoun.

  1. The athlete who won the race had been training for two years.
  2. The desk on which you are writing is an antique.
  3. The café, where we usually meet, was destroyed last night in a fire.
  4. I will always remember the time when I ordered my first suspended coffee.
  5. We are discussing a tradition which is very old.
  6. Kate left her laptop on the bench where we had been sitting.