English Grammar and Vocabulary Practice
1. Vocabulary
Introduced: presented
Numerous: in great numbers
Used: utilized
Versions: type or form
Female: relative to women
Divergence: become different
Incorrectly: in a way that it is not correct
Within: inside
Unintelligible: not able to be understood
Interpreted: decide the meaning of something
Refers to: means
2. Word Formation
Introduce - introduction / introducer - introductory - introductorily
Pronunciate - pronunciation / pronunciator - pronunciable - X
Characterize - Character - Characteristical - Characteristically
Personate - person - personal - personally
Smuggle - smuggling / smuggler - smuggled / smuggling - X
Speak - speaker / speaking - spoken / speaking - X
Generalize - general - general - generially
Include - included - inclusive - inclusively
Practice - practice - practiced - practically
Die - death - dead - deadly
Differentiate - difference - differentiable - differently
Unite - union - united - unitedly
3. Reading Comprehension
a) Since last fall it is said that intruders have been using backyards in most of their burglaries of chalets and apartments for years to not be seen arriving from the front street. (American English)
b) It is already assured and decided that an enormous sneakers shop store will be open on the sidewalk of the street where they use to take the cabs. One neighbor was told that they needed elevator attendants, dependents, and rest rooms cleaners. (American English)
c) It was told to us in the petrol station of the C-456 motorway that two kilometers ahead... (British English)
d) It could have been a gang of kidnappers... (British English)
4. Grammar: Future Perfect Tense
a) Someone won't be visiting us.
b) Would someone have visited us?
c) Someone had been visiting us.
d) Is someone visiting us?
e) Someone will have visited us.
f) Is someone about to visit us right now?
5. Grammar: Common Errors
1) Gary told James to not touch his new paintings.
2) We have been bitten by insects for hours.
3) For three years Steve has been going out with Jackie.
4) Sally asked her boyfriend why he waited for her awake at home when she came back late the day before yesterday.
5) Jack's boss will have given him new commands in two hours.
6) If Paula could have solved those math problems she wouldn't have failed the test.
7) Samuel has made us a delicious apple jelly. Samuel has made us a delicious apple jello.
8) I should have bought something to eat, now the shops are closed and we are very hungry. I should have bought something to eat, now the stores are closed and we are very hungry.
9) Fanny was seen going out with Stuart, a thing that her best friend Rachel told her not to do.
10) I needn't wear a tie.
11) In 2012 Clark started collecting butterflies, he is still doing it today.
12) She thinks I must have loved her in the past because of my unusual and very kind treatment to her.
6. Grammar: Modal Verbs
a) You should start wearing shirts if you think they fit you well.
b) He must have written it after a long nap.
c) My future wife will be a good person
d) I should have bought that German ring.
e) I could have bought another souvenir from my trip to Germany, like that beautiful ring.
f) I don't know my neighbor too well but he is going to buy me a car.
g) I'm going to the cinema tomorrow with someone, but I don't know with whom yet.