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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR

EXERCISES
CONTENTS

Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: a/an, the
4 Articles and possessive adjectives
5 a/an and one
Auxiliary verbs
PEG chapters 10-16
6 Auxiliary verbs
7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did
8 Auxiliary verbs
9 Auxiliary verbs
10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs
11 Agreements and disagreements with remarks, using auxiliary verbs
12 Question tags after negative statements
13 Question tags after affirmative statements
14 Question tags: mixed
15 Auxiliaries followed by full or bare infinitive
16 Auxiliaries: mixed
17 have: possessive
18 have: various uses
19 The have + object + past participle construction
20 be
21 it is/there is
22 can and be able
23 may
24 must and have to
25 must not and need not
26 need not and don't have to etc.
27 must, can't and needn't with the perfect infinitive
Present and past tenses
PEG chapters 17-18
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The simple present tense
The present continuous tense
The simple present and the present continuous
The simple present and the present continuous
The simple past tense
The simple past tense
The past continuous tense
The simple past and the past continuous
The simple past and the past continuous
The present perfect tense
The present perfect and the simple past

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The present perfect and the simple past

The present perfect and the simple past
The present perfect continuous tense
The present perfect and the present perfect continuous
for and since

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Future forms
PEG chapter 19
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45 The present continuous tense as a future form

The be going to form
The present continuous and the be going to form
The future simple
The present continuous and the future simple
will + infinitive and the be going to form
will + infinitive and the be going to form
The future continuous tense
will + infinitive and the future continuous
won't + infinitive and the future continuous negative
Second person interrogative: will you and other forms
shall and will
Time clauses
The future perfect tense
Time clauses
would and should
would and should

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Conditionals
PEG chapter 21
62 Conditional sentences: type 1
63 Conditional sentences: type 2
64 Conditional sentences: type 3
65 Conditional sentences: mixed types
66 Conditional sentences: mixed types
67 Mixed tenses and verb forms

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Infinitive
PEG chapter 23
68 Full or bare infinitive
69 Full or bare infinitive
70 Infinitive represented by to
71 too/enough/so . . . as with infinitive
72 Various infinitive constructions
73 Perfect infinitive used with auxiliary verbs
74 Perfect infinitive used with auxiliaries and some other verbs

Gerund, infinitive and participles

PEG chapters 23-6
75 The gerund

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76 Gerund and infinitive
77 Gerund and infinitive
78 Gerund and infinitive
79 Infinitive, gerund, present participle
80 Using participles to join sentences
81 Misrelated participles
Passive
PEG chapter 30
82 Active to passive
83 Active to passive
84 Passive to active
Indirect speech
PEG chapter 31
85 Indirect speech: statements
86 Indirect speech: statements
87 Indirect speech: questions
88 Indirect speech: questions
89 Indirect speech: questions
90 Indirect speech: commands, requests, advice expressed by object +
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91 Indirect speech: commands, requests, advice
92 Indirect speech: commands, requests, advice
93 Indirect speech: commands, requests, invitations, offers, advice
94 Indirect speech: questions, requests, invitations, offers, advice
95 Indirect speech: commands and questions with if-clauses and time
clauses
96 Indirect speech: suggestions
97 Indirect speech: mixed types
98 Indirect to direct speech
Purpose
PEG chapter 33
99 Infinitive used to express purpose
100 Clauses and phrases of purpose
some, any etc. and relatives
PEG chapters 5 and 8
101 some, any and compounds, e.g. somebody, anything, somehow
102 Relatives: defining, non-defining and connective
103 Relatives: defining, non-defining and connective
104 Relatives: non-defining and connective
105 what and which
106 whatever, whenever, whoever etc.
107 Relative clauses replaced by infinitives
Prepositions
PEG chapter 9
108 Prepositions: at, to; preposition/adverb: in
109 Prepositions and prepositions/adverbs: at, by, in, into, of, off, on, out
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110 Prepositions and prepositions/adverbs: at, by, during, for, from, in,
of, on, over, since, till, under, with
111 Prepositions and prepositions/adverbs: about, at, away (adverb only),
by, for, from, in, into, on, out, to, under, up, with, over
112 Use and omission of prepositions
113 till/until, to, for, since, then, after, afterwards
Auxiliaries + perfect infinitives
PEG chapters 11-15
114 Auxiliaries + perfect infinitives
115 Auxiliaries + perfect infinitives
116 Auxiliaries + perfect infinitives
Present, past and perfect tenses
PEG chapters 17-18
117 The simple present and the present continuous
118 The simple present and the present continuous
119 The simple past and the past continuous
120 The simple past and the past continuous
121 The simple past and the past continuous
122 The present perfect with for and since
123 The present perfect and the simple past
124 The present perfect and the simple past
125 The present perfect simple and continuous
126 The simple past and the past perfect, simple and continuous
127 Questions
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129 Mixed tenses, letters
130 Mixed tenses: letters
131 Mixed tenses: telephone conversations
Future forms
PEG chapter 19
132 The present continuous and the future simple
133 The present continuous and be going to
134 be going to and will + infinitive
135 The future continuous and will + infinitive
136 The future continuous and will (mostly negative)
137 The future perfect
138 The present simple and continuous, the future simple and conditional

Conditionals
PEG chapter 21
139 Conditional sentences: type 1
140 Conditional sentences: type 1
141 Conditional sentences: type 2
142 Conditional sentences: type 2
143 Conditional sentences: type 3
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145 Conditional sentences: mixed types
146 Conditional sentences: mixed types
147 will and shall
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Gerund, infinitive and present participle
PEG chapters 23-6
149 Gerund, infinitive and present participle
150 Gerund, infinitive and present participle
Unreal pasts and subjunctives
PEG chapters 28-29
151 Unreal pasts and subjunctives
152 would rather + subject + past tense
153 wish + subject + past, past perfect or conditional
The passive
PEG chapter 30
154 Active to passive
155 Active to passive
156 Active to passive with phrasal verbs
157 Active to passive with changes of construction
Indirect speech
PEG chapter 31
158 Indirect speech: statements
159 Indirect speech: statements
160 Indirect speech: questions
161 Indirect speech: questions, advice, requests, invitations, suggestions
162 Indirect speech: commands, requests, invitations, advice
163 Indirect speech: commands, requests, advice, suggestions
164 Indirect speech: mixed types
165 Indirect speech: sentences with let
166 Indirect speech: sentences with must, needn't and have to
167 Indirect speech to direct speech

Time clauses
PEG chapters 32,34

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169 Time clauses
170 when, whenever and as (= while, because)

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Phrasal verbs
PEG chapter 38

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171 Combinations with get and be

172 Combinations with look and keep

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173 Combinations with go and come
174 Combinations with take and run
175 Combinations with turn, call and break
176 Combinations with give, put and make
177 Combinations with clear, cut, fall, hold, let and hand
178 Mixed combinations
179 Mixed combinations
180 Mixed combinations
181 Mixed combinations
182 Mixed combinations with compound prepositions/adverbs
183 Substituting phrasal verbs for other expressions
184 Substituting phrasal verbs for other expressions
185 Combinations with off and on
186 Combinations with up
187 Combinations with out
188 Combinations with down, away and over
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190 Mixed combinations used in a connected passage

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