English Grammar Mastery: Exercises and Answer Key

Section 5: Reported Speech Exercises

Put these sentences in the reported speech:

• 1. He hadn't met his friends the previous day because he had arrived too late.
• 2. Anna told Mark that she was going to finish her homework.
• 3. The teacher asked the students if they had brought their textbooks.
• 4. My mom advised me not to stay out until late.
• 5. Joe begged his father to buy him a new tablet.

Section 6: Passive Voice Transformations

Write these sentences in the passive (do not include the agent where it is not necessary):

• 1. The paintings have been taken to another museum.
• 2. The burglar was seen breaking the window.
• 3. We were shown the way to the park by a nice old man.
• 4. We will be told our marks by the teacher tomorrow.
• 5. A new anti-mosquito lotion is being produced.

Section 7: Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

Write defining or non-defining relative clauses:

• 1. My boyfriend, who lives in Madrid, is a journalist.
• 2. That is the disco where I met my boyfriend.
• 3. Paul Auster, whose book has become a best-seller, was on TV.
• 4. I can remember that special moment when I won a prize.
• 5. This is the book which my friend lent me.

Section 8: Vocabulary Practice

Complete the sentences with a suitable word from below:

1. Cover
2. Lay
3. Mend
4. Run
5. Thick

Section 9: Advanced Vocabulary

Complete the sentences with a suitable word from below:

1. Thaw
2. Average
3. Hazardous
4. Soil
5. Melted

Section 1: Verb Tense Review

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense (Present, Past, or Perfect):

• 1. Has he seen?
• 2. Doesn't like; think; is watching.
• 3. Heard; went; had already stopped.
• 4. Were driving; jumped.
• 5. Are your friends doing?

Section 2: Future Simple and "Going To"

Complete the sentences with the future simple or "going to" form:

• 1. Will pay.
• 2. Will do.
• 3. Is going to visit.
• 4. I will open.
• 5. Will robots be?

Section 3: Modal Verbs and Sentence Rewriting

Rewrite the sentences using modal verbs:

• 1. You should take some blankets if...
• 2. Her children can play the piano.
• 3. She needn't bring food to the party.
• 4. We had to take the bus to arrive...
• 5. She shouldn't have driven so fast.
• 6. The baby couldn't walk until...
• 7. They may not come today.
• 8. She might not have caught the train.
• 9. She couldn't have bought the expensive dress.
• 10. He may have forgotten our date.

Section 4: Conditional Sentence Structures

Write conditional sentences for these situations:

• 1. If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world.
• 2. If you don't water plants, they die.
• 3. I will get very angry unless she phones us.
• 4. If I had known you were back from your holidays, I would have phoned you.
• 5. If we had brought our tickets, we would have seen the film.