Advanced English Vocabulary and Grammar Practice Exercises

Vocabulary Mastery

Section 1: Word Definitions

1. Vicinity, 2. Phasing out, 3. Match, 4. Emerged, 5. Nosedive, 6. Height, 7. Constraints, 8. Worms, 9. Basis, 10. Differentiate, 11. Unleashed, 12. Horrifying

Section 2: Conceptual Terms

1. Captivity, 2. Deviant, 3. Confinement, 4. Assertive, 5. Outrageous, 6. Reproduction, 7. Depth, 8. Extensive, 9. Recollection, 10. Limitations

Section 3: Contextual Usage

1. Prohibited, 2. Intriguing, 3. Resembled, 4. Aid, 5. Ill-suited, 6. The wild, 7. Maintain, 8. Brink

Section 4: Idiomatic Expressions

1. The animals' fate was sealed, 2. Moves at a snail's pace, 3. To the delight of the audience, 4. From sensory deprivation, 5. Watches her cubs like a hawk, 6. Backed the wrong horse

Grammar and Syntax

Section 1: Sentence Structure

1. You not forget, 2. Do tourists set foot, 3. That the filter be cleaned, 4. Should you need, 5. Be held, 6. Had you been, 7. Should be required, 8. Had we arrived that

Section 2: Advanced Inversion and Subjunctive

1. Under no circumstances should you eat one, 2. Mum insists that I tidy it once a week, 3. Seldom have I been so insulted!, 4. It's vital that we not lose this game, 5. Never again will I believe a word you say, 6. We request that all phones be turned off now

Section 3: Clause Completion

1. Should I not answer, 2. Once was my contribution, 3. That visitors not disturb, 4. You to buy a ticket, 5. Will you understand how to, 6. Recommendation that students be given

Section 4: Complex Sentence Construction

1. Our parents take, 2. Did we get, 3. Goes the elephant, 4. Did the public gradually become, 5. People be told, 6. Should animals suffer, 7. Had the activists not felt, 8. Should you want

Language Proficiency Review

Section 1: Prepositional Usage

1. On - In, 2. Of - On, 3. At - On, 4. For - With, 5. On - At, 6. Upon - On, 7. In - On, 8. With - To

Section 2: Word Formation

1. Outraged, 2. Commitment, 3. Recollection, 4. Assumptions, 5. Assertion, 6. Adaptation, 7. Extent, 8. Applicable

Section 3: Vocabulary Context

1. Extensive, 2. Moral, 3. Surge, 4. Delight, 5. Assertive, 6. Commonly, 7. Differentiate, 8. Confusion

Section 4: Idioms in Context

1. Traffic is moving at a snail's pace, 2. If you want to attend this school, you need to clean up your act, 3. Josh is the black sheep of the family, 4. Kelly pulled an all-nighter to study for the exam, 5. You'll open a can of worms if you ask too many questions, 6. The politician expects his proposal to run up against opposition

Section 5: Advanced Grammar Drills

1. Have I, 2. Couldn't have, 3. Will I clear, 4. Of announcing, 5. Neither do, 6. My watching

Section 6: Final Sentence Transformations

1. Never again will I try leaving during rush hour, 2. I seem to have taken them by mistake, 3. It is important that he should wake up on time, 4. I wish I could have seen you perform, 5. Were you to ask me to give a speech, I would refuse