Upper Intermediate Grammar & Vocabulary

Upper Intermediate Grammar & Vocabulary

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Multiple Choice

It's no use phoning Bob at the office, he ________

• will be leaving

• is leaving

• will have left

• already left

• will leave

Future continuous tense

We use the future continuous tense to talk about what will be happening at a certain time in the future.

Multiple Choice

While I ________ the letter, the phone rang.

• am opening

• was opening

• were opening

• opened

• open

Past Continuous tense

• Action was progressive.

• The Past Continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the past.

• The action started before that moment but has not finished at that moment.

Multiple Choice

The car _________ all the time.

• has getting worse

• was getting worst

• have got worst

• was getting worse

• have got worse

Past Continuous tense

• Action was progressive.

• The Past Continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the past.

• The action started before that moment but has not finished at that moment.

• Worse = between 2 things

Multiple Choice

When I ______ in London, I _______ through the park every day.

• lived, walked

• lived, was walked

• lived, was walking

• lived, have walked

• have lived, walked

Past Continuous tense

• Past continuous is not used to describe general habitual actions

Multiple Choice

By the time I ________ to the station, the train ________.

• got, had left

• will got, had left

• got, have left

• got, left

• got, was left

Past

• We use the past perfect when we are already talking about the past, and we want to go back to an earlier past time ('double past').

Multiple Choice

I ________ phone you, but I ________.

• were going, forgot

• was going to, forgot

• would go to, forgot

• would go to, have been forgot

• would go to, had forgot

Unfulfilled past events

• These describe events intended to take place, but which did not happen.

Multiple Choice

I _______ if you _______ to come to the cinema.

• was wondering, wanted

• am wondering, want

• am saying to myself, wanted

• am talking to myself, wanted

• would go to, had forgot

Polite forms

• To wonder is used to be very indirect - like an innocent way of asking questions

Multiple Choice

_______ I'd read the manual, I found I ______ the computer easily.

• Afterwards, could use

• Afterwards, can use

• Once, could use

• After, could use

• Right after, am able to use

Multiple Choice

We _______ the turning.

• have missed

• have been missed

• have been missing

• missed

• was missing

Present perfect simple

• Recent events, without a definite time given.

Multiple Choice

Daby _______ three car accidents

• had had

• has had

• had

• did had

• was having

Present perfect simple

• Indefinite events, which happened at an unknown time in the past.

• No definite time is given.

Multiple Choice

This _______ my home for thirty years

• was

• has been

• were

• had

• had been

Multiple Choice

The price of petrol _______ by 15% over the past months.

• had been rising

• has risen

• has been rising

• have risen

• rose