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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: People and Personality

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

  1. I'm afraid my cousin is a bit of a fashion   . Every month she blows nearly all her money on the latest clothes and accessories and then by the end of the month they are out of fashion.
  2. Jim, you are such a   . Whenever there's free food on offer, you're the first through the door. But when have you ever cooked for us?
  3. All my friends are glass-   -full people. I guess that's why they always manage to cheer me up when I get depressed.
  4. What's the matter with Steve? He's normally the   of the party but tonight he seems really quiet and wthdrawn.
  5. I'm glad to say my son-in   law's calmed down a bit since he turned thirty. He used to be such a   the lad, always down at the pub with his mates.
  6. Tim, you shouldn't always sit at the front of the class. That's why the other boys all think that you're a teacher's   .
  7. Since his divorce, Ted's been spending even more time at the office. I guess he always was a bit of a   but now he even sleeps there sometimes.
  8. Andy, you have to stop being so   about your hair. Really, nobody notices your bald patch or your receding hairline.
  9. I'm sorry to say it, but your friend Brian is a bit of a   parker sometimes. He always knows what everybody else is doing.
  10. It was very   -witted of you to notice that they were about to leave without paying their bill. If you hadn't said anything they'd have got away with it again.
  11. Jill is really upset this evening. Her boss accused her of being a(n)   watcher. It was really unfair of him, what with all the unpaid overtime she's always doing.
  12. That's really quite unusual for David to suddenly get angry like that. He's normally such a(n)   -tempered guy.

Your answers

 

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