Mastering English: Advanced Grammar and Vocabulary Practice

English Language Practice: Advanced Skills Review

1. Essential Collocations and Phrases

• a. They are engaged.
• b. Don't ignore.
• c. I envy you.
• d. A very nice discount.
• e. Could I borrow?
• f. They got divorced.
• g. My favorite shopping spree.
• h. If you can lend, pay back.
• i. In my budget.
• j. We have grown apart.

2. Mastering Prepositions

• Don't stare at.
• Are going to be on.
• Always depend on.
• Complaining about.
• We have run out of.

3. Gerunds and Infinitives in Use

• Keen on going.
• Have decided to buy.
• We can afford to eat.
• Smoking is a bad habit.
• We stopped to say.

4. Business and Money Idioms

• Been on another shopping spree.
• They will go out of business.
• Only just make ends meet.
• I'm going to be worth it.
• I'm not sure it will foot the bill.
• Is going to shop around.
• If you live beyond one's means.
• Because he's cost an arm and a leg.
• On the house.

5. Advanced Grammar Structures

• I am having my eyes checked tomorrow.
• We will go to the cinema when you finish your homework.
• If the houses in London had not cost that much, I would not have to commute.
• I'm the only student in class whose mother is not French.
• If she had revised all the units, she would have passed the exam.
• Some fantastic discounts are being offered to customers.
• We do not have to turn up before 6 PM.
• We should not have stayed up last night.
• Was all the furniture chosen by the designer?
• That Prada bag must have cost a lot.

6. Comprehensive Verb Tense Review

• My back hurts. I have been sitting behind a desk all day.
• We needed some milk. On the way, I stopped to buy some.
• If they had taken on more police officers, the crime rate wouldn't have increased.
• If we scored now, the crowd would go wild.
• Tinogona, which means "it is achievable."
• By the time I'm 20, I will have finished school.
• I'm sure they're lying. It cannot be true.
• Why did you throw your old games console away? You could have sold them.
• That's the third record that has already been broken.

7. Further Verb Tense Applications

• The plane had already taken off.
• And I were talking.
• I am making.
• How many exercises have you done?
• You have been reading.
• Scientists will have found.
• This time next month, I will be sharing.
• How much did it cost?
• Right now, I do not know.