English Grammar Exercises: Tenses, Reported Speech, and More

Exercise 1: Choose the Correct Past Tense

1. had hidden
2. found out
3. had written
4. searched
5. called
6. had happened
7. drove
8. had saved up

Exercise 2: Question Formation

1. Who did you see yesterday?
2. When did you last see Damion?
3. Where does your sister work?
4. Are you having a good time in London?
5. What are you going to do tomorrow?
6. How long have you been studying at university?

Exercise 3: Reported Speech

1. The boy denied that he had stolen the money.
2. Finn suggested checking online.
3. Mr. Harris recommended Sam to apologize immediately.
4. Clara reminded Lisa to buy some milk.
5. Manuel admitted to Sue that he had copied her answers in the text.
6. Oscar congratulated Alex on scoring the goal.

Exercise 4: Defining (D) and Non-defining (ND) Relative Clauses

1. ND - My old brother, who's at college in Barcelona, is called Max.
2. D - I remember the time when we used to play football together.
3. D - This is the man whose bag was stolen.
4. D - There is the park where I learned to ride a bike.
5. D - I am going to the new exercise class which costs...
6. D - This is my friend who is running the marathon next week.

Exercise 5: Active and Passive Voice

1. a. The map was shown to the woman.
   b. The woman was shown the map.
2. a. Some cake has already been offered to Simone.
   b. Simone has already been offered some cake.
3. a. A coat will be given to James.
   b. James will be given a coat.

Exercise 6: Causative Verbs (Have/Get something done)

1. They are having their house decorated tomorrow.
2. She had her bag stolen at the concert last night.
3. I have shopping delivered by the supermarket.
4. I'm going to have my computer fixed tonight.
5. My mum had her teeth cleaned by the dentist.

Exercise 7: Modal Verbs

Possibility/Probability:

1. might
2. can't
3. may
4. might
5. might have
6. ... have
7. might have
8. may have

Ability/Permission/Obligation:

1. had to
2. couldn't
3. should
4. can
5. was able to
6. might
7. can
8. didn't have to