... PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: a/an, the
4 Articles and possessive adjectives
5 a/an and one
Auxiliary verbs
... PEG chapters 10-16
6 Auxiliary verbs
7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did
8 Auxiliary verbs
9 Auxiliary verbs
10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs
11 Agreements and disagreements ... You do the exercises.
27 He had difficulty (in) getting a job.
28 He dared to interrupt the president, did he? (Omit final did he?)
Auxiliary verbs
PEG 106-7
Put the following verbs into the...
... PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: a/an, the
4 Articles and possessive adjectives
5 a/an and one
Auxiliary verbs
... PEG chapters 10-16
6 Auxiliary verbs
7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did
8 Auxiliary verbs
9 Auxiliary verbs
10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs
11 Agreements and disagreements ... You do the exercises.
27 He had difficulty (in) getting a job.
28 He dared to interrupt the president, did he? (Omit final did he?)
Auxiliary verbs
PEG 106-7
Put the following verbs into the...
... I did everything I could.
11. I must go now.
12. Diamonds suit me.
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200 ENGLISHgrammar
exercises
1
2 Auxiliary verbs: short answers PEG 108
Assume that questions are addressed to you and ... plays Italian music.
5. drinks English beer.
6. dances with a Greek girl.
7. uses an English dictionary.
8. has lunch in a Japanese restaurant.
9. listens to the news in English.
10. writes in Spanish.
11. ... the answer.)
12. talks English.
13. corrects the Spanish essays.
14. explains in English.
15. lectures in Spanish.
16. broadcasts in Spanish.
17. addresses students in English.
18. cooks a Spanish...
... ancient.
The children are quiet.
Our dinner is ready.
The verb be is by far the most common linking verb. The predicate adjective in linking verb
sentences is used to give information about the ... adjective. The term predicate adjective refers to adjectives
that function as predicates of linking verbs. (These terms are explained in detail in Chapter 10.)
For now, let’s just look at some examples ... the:
The clock in the hall is slow.
X The clock in the hall is the.
Exercise 2.1
Here are three exercises in one. Following are pairs of noun modifi ers; one member of the pair
is a true adjective,...