Essential English Grammar Exercises and Sentence Structures

Posted on May 5, 2026 in English

English Grammar Practice Sentences

1. How long ago did you buy your tablet?
2. I haven’t been to a Rolling Stones concert for 25 years.
3. After David had written his mother an email, he apologized for his behavior.
4. I am having lunch with Joyce today.
5. He is the most famous person we have ever met.
6. Sharon stopped eating junk food a month ago.
7. Although it was raining, we went hiking.
8. Despite my complaints, I did not get a pay rise.
9. In spite of the new app being intuitive and user-friendly, I couldn’t get it installed.
10. There weren’t as many people at this meeting as at the last one.
11. Julia’s performance was more impressive than Adriana’s.
12. The better I speak English, the more opportunities I’ll have.
13. The more tourists there are, the more the environment will be damaged.
14. She wasn’t as excited as she often gets; she was less excited than she often gets.
15. Jake suggested that we should order some pizza; Jake suggested ordering some pizza.
16. Brian replied that he thought he was going to update his Instagram profile the next day.
17. She asked me where I had gone the previous night.
18. John asked me to give him a call when I got home.
19. The teacher told us not to bring our dictionaries the next day.
20. He is such a talented person that he was picked in the top five.
21. It was such a humiliating defeat that those who survived went back home straight away.
22. Mike is too tired to go on.

23. Algebra isn’t simple enough for me to understand.
24. The boxes should be kept in the fridge.
25. A lot of information is being given to the journalists by the astronauts; the journalists are being given a lot of information by the astronauts.
26. The passengers were told by the driver to stay away from the bus until the door opened.
27. One in six British children is believed to be overweight.
28. The politician is claimed to have forgotten his paperwork at home.
29. The manager was believed to have been drinking too much at that party.
30. The animals were believed to have been killed during the night.
31. We were having the house painted while we were away on holiday.
32. We will have our new dishwasher installed next week.

33. Henry VIII, who became king in 1509, married six times.
34. Mary, whose husband is a plastic surgeon, works in our office.
35. Rachel passed all her subjects with merit, which made her parents very proud of her.
36. She’s a new employee who I can rely on; she’s a new employee on whom I can rely.
37. Unless you are on a diet, try the cheesecake.
38. If people don’t take Peter seriously, he gets angry; should people not take him seriously, Peter gets angry.
39. If Mike did some exercise, he wouldn’t be so unfit; were Mike to do some exercise, he wouldn’t be so unfit.
40. Had Wendy studied for her test, she wouldn’t have failed.
41. I wish he wouldn’t shout so much.
42. If only I had started working on the project last month.
43. I regret not going by car; I should have gone by car.
44. You had better not stay long at the party; if I were you, I wouldn’t stay long at the party.