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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Grammar: Reporting Verbs 2

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. The motorist   that the police consider giving a warning instead of a fine for using his mobile while driving.
  2. Many US visitors to the UK   on having air conditioning on in their hotel rooms, even when the weather is not hot.
  3. After telling us about the new students' room, she   that we were no longer allowed to drink coffee in classrooms.
  4. One of the students   having the lesson in the garden as it was such beautiful weather that day.
  5. One of my friends is always   getting up early every morning.
  6. I was   not to return to my home along the coast road but to take a different route through the mountains.
  7. My friend was arrested last week because he couldn't   having explosives in his backpack when the police searched him.
  8. Our teacher apologised   one of the students' names for the third time.
  9. I politely   their invitation to go to the pub because I needed to spend more time on my homework.
  10. None of the class members   to taking the chocolate while the teacher had been out of the room.
  11. I was totally shocked when the police   being a terrorist and warned me that I could be held for thirty days without trial.
  12. My lawyer   remaining silent and suggested that I tell the police everything I knew about my mysterious flatmate.

Your answers

 

1. A B C D
2. A B C D
3. A B C D
4. A B C D
5. A B C D
6. A B C D
7. A B C D
8. A B C D
9. A B C D
10. A B C D
11. A B C D
12. A B C D