Grammar Drills and Exercises with Answers

Answers. One or two of these are a little bit "trappy" but an intermediate student should have 10 correct out of 12.

01. I fell when I was crossing the road.

02. I dropped my bag when I was boarding the plane.

03. I got wet while walking in the rain.

04. Whenever the politician opened his mouth to speak the crowd shouted insults.

05. While the maid was cleaning the room a skeleton fell out of the cupboard.

06. As soon as he got under the shower, the doorbell rang.

07. They slipped and fell while they were climbing the mountain.

08. While I was sightseeing in London I hid my money in my socks.

09. As they were flying from Stockholm to Moscow, the starboard engine burst into flames.

10. When she was having lunch a waiter dropped a plate of soup in her lap.

11. As it was raining their mother cancelled the picnic.

12. When he was cycling downhill, the brakes failed and he only avoided a serious accident by steering into a friendly rhododendron bush.

VERB FORM AND USE

01 simple present
02 simple present have-be
03 drill: third person
04 elementary present
05 intermediate present

07 elementary past
08 continuous and simple
09 irregular past
10 irregular past
11 irregular past

14 past tense review
15 past tense review

19 present perfect
20 present/past perfect

23 conditional review
24 conditional
25 conditional

28 use of gerund
29 gerund
30 gerund and infinitive
31 gerund and infinitive
32 gerund and infinitive
33 gerund and infinitive