Grammar Drills and Exercises with Answers

An intermediate student should have got these all correct.

1. Inside the police station, a sergeant was standing at a desk, writing.

2. He was still writing when the constable brought Bert in, and he and the constable stood in front of the desk until the sergeant had finished.

3. Finally, he looked up and said to the constable: "Where did you find him?"

4. "He was sleeping on a bench in the park. It was not easy to wake him up. As I stood there, he just went on snoring. He snored so loudly, he frightened the children."

5. "Did anyone complain?"

6. "Two little old ladies came up to me and told me that the snores made them nervous."

7. The sergeant said: "A man telephoned here and told me that he lived next to the park and the noise was causing interference on his TV. He asked why we were not doing anything about it."

8. He turned to Bert and asked him if he realised he was Public Nuisance Number One.

9. Bert replied in a rush that he was a heavy sleeper, that he worked at night, and that he was unable to sleep at home because his neighbour gave piano lessons, and the students always played Bach preludes, and he hated Bach.

10. The sergeant scratched his head and said he wondered what the piano students thought of Bert's trombone.

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