Grammar and Usage Exercises with Answers

Answers. An intermediate student should have 17 or 18 correct.

01. If you arrive early, you will have to wait.

02. If you arrived early, you would have to wait.

03. If you had arrived early, you would have had to wait.

04. They will help you if they can.

05. They would help you if they could.

06. They would have helped you if they could have.

07. If you drink too much you will be sick.

08. Unless you work hard you will not pass your test.

09. If you stop smoking you will live longer.

10. Practise hard and your English will improve.

11. We would have gone out if had stopped raining.

12. If I had gone away, I would have written to you.

13. If he had worked harder, he would have succeeded.

14. He would not have written unless he was lonely.

15. She would have come if you had invited her.

16. Unless the greenhouse effect is mitigated, the seas will rise.

17. If you were older, you would be wiser.

18. If I had known you weren't coming, I would not have baked a cake.

19. If you run, you will catch the train.

20. If I were you, I would go on holiday.

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