Grammar Drills and Exercises with Answers

Answers. A CAE student should have scored ten or more correct and a successful FCE student seven or more.

01. Unemployed teenagers hang about/around the city streets.

02. He sold his shares at a profit.

03. I was very early. I arrived an hour before time.

04. The newspapers were not supposed to print what the President said because he was speaking off the record.

05. The book is unobtainable because it is out of print.

06. With competition intense, you cannot sell goods that are below standard.

07. They were gossiping about him behind his back.

08. We have a dog and a cat besides the canary.

09. I prefer to travel by train.

10. After my holiday, I felt fresh and ready for work.

11. The drunken man swayed from side to side.

12. There was no compulsion. I did it of my own free will.

01 elementary
02 elementary
03 elementary
04 elementary

06 intermediate
07 intermediate
08 intermediate
09 intermediate
10 intermediate
11 intermediate
12 intermediate
13 intermediate


16 advanced
17 advanced
18 advanced
19 advanced