Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1. Advice is/are like kissing: it/they costs/costs nothing and is/are a pleasant thing to do.
2. As the construction works was/were halted in 1996, some stages of this standard procedure were not
concluded satisfactory.
3. Athletics is/are in the blood in the North East.
4. Cattle was/were driven out of Texas well before the Civil War.
5. Chess is/are a classic two person board game.
6. Her knowledge of English grammar is/are very extensive.
7. Her politics has/have become more liberal over the past few years.
8. If the contents of the box is/are fragile, make a separate label that says "FRAGILE," and stick it near
the first label.
9. It is likely that her phonetics is/are affected by some other language, perhaps English.
10. It looks like the hair is/are attached with a hatpin in the last photo.
11. It's just that the basics was/were either so beneath the board's attention that it/they didn't seem to
matter.
12. Measles was/were described as long ago as the ninth century.
13. Money is/are tight at the moment.
14. Nuclear arms is/are paradoxically seen as an insurance against its/their own use.
15. Once clean, the clothes was/were wrung out.
16. Police suspects/suspect a local gang.
17. Statistics shows/show that far more people are able to ride a bicycle than can drive a car.
18. The cash is/are a real stimulus to economic activity.
19. The rich and famous is/are not the only one/ones who goes/go through infidelity scandals.
20. Women film directors in Hollywood is/are a rare species.
Open the brackets using the verb in a suitable form (singular or plural, present or past).
Disjunctive Questions
1. He has never travelled abroad, 9. Somebody is calling you,
2. He has lunch at home, 10. Let’s go shopping,
3. Don’t be late, 11. Switch on the lights,
4. She can hardly hear, 12. The weather is nasty today,
5. There are a lot of people on the beach, 13. You haven’t got a pet,
6. I’m having lunch with Mr. Ford today, 14. Something has to be done,
7. You’ll be at home tonight, 15. There isn’t any coffee in the pot,
8. My brother went to London last year, 16. Nobody speaks Chinese here,
Insert a preposition/an adverb where necessary.
1. I remarked that it was better to approach Ken (1) direct/directly and not through his secretary. His secretary laughed out
(2) loud/loudly at my remark. I think really she was (3) deep/deeply offended by what I'd said.
2. Old Mr Elkins is still going (4) strong/strongly although he's over ninety. He says he'd like to reach a hundred, but
admits he may be aiming a bit (5) high/ highly. However, there's a (6) wide/widely held belief in the village that he'll get
there.
3. Georgina was about to say something but stopped (7) short /shortly, and her eyes opened (8) wide/widely with
amazement. Somewhere in the house a horse had neighed (9) loud/loudly.
4. 'He told me to turn (10) sharp/sharply left just past the station.'
'If he told you that he told you (11) wrong/wrongly. But you got here in the end even though you were (12) wrong/wrongly
directed.'
5. (13) Faint /Faintly in the distance we heard the noise of thunder. Then the radio went (14) faint/faintly and we could (15)
hard/hardly hear the news. We shut all the windows (16) tight/tightly and waited for the storm.
6. Marilyn's leaving (17) short/shortly for the United States on a business trip. As she (18) right /rightly says, there's
nothing like personal contact for promoting one's products. Her suitcase is so (19) tight/tightly packed with samples
there's not even room for a toothbrush. She refuses to take two suitcases because she wants to travel (20) light/lightly.
7. Ken was driving along at about eighty miles an hour when a stone went (21) clean /cleanly through the windscreen and
hit him in the face. Afterwards he talked (22) light /lightly of the affair, but he was lucky to escape with his life.
8. There's a lot more to Willie than one would think: still waters run (23) deep/ deeply, as they say. I've been following his
career (24) close/closely, and think high/highly of his ability as an architect. But he's inclined to work too hard/hardly, and
the doctor has recently advised him to go (27) slow/slowly.
9. When I took my driving test, the examiner said I had done everything (28) right/rightly except reversing, when I had
turned too (29) sharp/sharply and mounted the pavement. He (30) strong/ strongly recommended me to practise in a
smaller car than the one I'd been using.
10. Denis thinks up the most ludicrous schemes, which all fall (31) flat /flatly. Helen's parents are (32) flat /flatly opposed
to any idea of her marrying him. They say he was (33) direct /directly involved in the recent financial scandal at the Town
Hall.
11. The struggles my parents had in the early years of their marriage brought them (34) closer /more closely together.
Things often went (35) bad/badly for them in those days, but look at them now! Things turned out (36) right /rightly in the
end.
Pronouns
Complete the sentences with (a) few (of), (a) little (of), the few, or the little.
1. After the plane crashed in the desert, the survivors divided …………………. water they had left between
them.
2. Jim, Bill, Sue and Gill were just …………………. those who came to say goodbye.
3. I saw him first …………………. after midnight.
4. Unfortunately, much of the early history of Zimbabwe is still unknown. For example, we know
…………………. about the early patterns of settlement.
5. Because it was cheap, and we didn't have much money, …………………. us used to go to the cinema every
Saturday morning.
6. It will take …………………. time, but I'm sure you'll learn the rules of cricket eventually.
7. Stephen and …………………. his friends were waiting for us in the park.
8. The play was poorly attended, but …………………. people who came had a very good evening.
9. Many questions were asked, but …………………. were answered.
10. The soldiers seemed to have …………………. idea who they were fighting against or why.