Mastering English Grammar: Key Concepts & Practice

1. Defining Relative Clauses

• Are those the children that you looked after some years ago?
• Mayka is a Spanish woman whose husband is Egyptian.
• She hasn't given me back the book which she borrowed from me last week.
• We didn't know the doctor who came by.
• I have found the comic which you were looking for.
• We went to the party which wasn't very enjoyable.

2. Non-Defining Relative Clauses

• Sheila, who has never visited England, speaks good English.
• A friend of mine, whose father is the manager of the company, helped me to get a job.
• The population of London, which was once the largest city in the world, is now falling.
• The storm, which nobody had been expecting, caused a lot of damage.
• This is Mr. Smith, whose son Philip plays in our team.
• My sister, whose boyfriend is English, has met someone else.

3. Modal Verbs: Single Forms

• 1. may
• 2. should
• 3. mustn't
• 4. needn't
• 5. can't
• 6. had to

4. Modal Verbs: Perfect Forms

• 1. needn't have worried
• 2. must have stolen the money
• 3. shouldn't have lied to the police
• 4. might have broken the cup

5. Passive Voice Constructions

• 1. The job as a sales assistant was offered to me by the clothes shop.
• 2. This coat can be put in the washing machine.
• 3. She shouldn't be left alone at the moment.
• 4. The truth will be told to him one of these days.

6. Causative Verbs: Have/Get Something Done

• 1. We are having our computer fixed at the moment.
• 2. John had his car repaired at the garage yesterday.

7. Impersonal Passive & Reporting Verbs

• 1. They are expected to slip up.
• 2. A witch is believed to have lived in the castle.

8. Mixed Grammar Points & Completions

• 1. Would you take
• 2. apologizes
• 3. wouldn't have / realized
• 4. You try
• 5. hadn't had
• 6. hadn't reserved
• 7. are late
• 8. hadn't left
• 9. stole
• 10. would have found

9. Third Conditional Sentences

• 1. If you hadn't caught the train to London, you wouldn't have met your boyfriend.
• 2. If your computer hadn't broken, you would have finished your homework.
• 3. If he had read her letter, he would have understood why she left.
• 4. If I had known her address, I would have visited her.