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Choose correct answers (grammar) 2079 Baishakh
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a) to; b) in; c) It is time the cows were brought in; d) That room has not been slept in for years; e) would have broken; f) should stay; g) had been stung; h) had set off; i) is; j) was. These match rules like 'conform to', 'steeped in', conditional patterns, singular subjects, and passive voice structures.
Complete the following sentences choosing the correct answers from bracket: a) The building does not conform ........... safety regulations. (with, to). b) He is steeped ........... the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. (with, in). c) It is time they brought the cows in. Its passive voice is ........... (It is time the cows were brought in / The cows were brought in time) d) Nobody has slept in that room for years. ........... (That room has not been slept in for years / That room has not been used for sleeping purpose for years.) e) It ........... if you had not caught it. (would break / would have broken) f) If it rained, I ........... at home. (should stay / could stay) g) She acts as if he ........... (were stung / had been stung) h) It seemed at least twenty minutes since Smith ........... for the village. (set off / had set off) i) The crown and glory of life ........... character. (is / are) j) The trouble with all those cars ........... slow speed. (was / were)
a) to: "conform to" rules. b) in: "steeped in" means deeply involved in something. c) It is time the cows were brought in: "time" plus past passive, keeping the original structure. d) That room has not been slept in for years: the preposition "in" is kept in the passive. e) would have broken: third conditional ("if you had not caught it"). f) should stay: second conditional with a first-person subject. g) had been stung: the stinging is imagined as an earlier past event. h) had set off: past perfect, because the leaving happened before the time of "seemed". i) is: "The crown and glory" is one idea. j) was: the subject is "trouble" (singular), not "cars".
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