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Choose correct words (grammar) 2068 Chaitra

Short answer

a) am, b) have, c) are, d) wants, e) has been, f) is being done, g) would buy, h) work, i) of, j) down.

Choose the correct words from the brackets: a) Either you or I ........... supposed to do it. (are, am) b) The government ........... decided to increase the salary of their civil servants. (have, has) c) The teacher said that we ........... mortal. (are, were) d) She says that she ........... more food. (wants, wanted) e) This notice ........... altered. (has been, have been) f) A lot of the work ........... by the students. (is being done, are being done) g) If I had enough money, I ........... this car. (would have bought, would buy) h) Unless you ........... hard, you can't pass the exam. (work, don't work) i) He died ........... T.B last year. (with, of) j) She always takes ........... notes in her class. (up, down)

a) am: "either...or" agrees with the nearer subject, "I". b) have: the pronoun "their" shows that "government" is treated as a group of individuals, so the plural verb is needed to match it (with the singular "has", the pronoun would be "its"). c) are: a general truth stays in the present tense. d) wants: the reporting verb "says" is in the present tense, so the tense of the reported clause does not change. e) has been: "notice" is singular. f) is being done: "A lot of the work" takes a singular verb, in the present continuous passive. g) would buy: second conditional (unreal present). h) work: "Unless" already makes the clause negative. i) of: one dies "of" a disease. j) down: "take down notes" means to write them.

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