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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Vocabulary: Adverb - Adjective Collocation

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

  1. The cost of a new house in the UK has become   high over the last few years.
  2. The drug company should not have put a new product on the market with   fatal side-effects.
  3. After a warm start to the month, the weather in the second half of June was   cold.
  4. Even when the cost of running the event were   subsidised by local government, tickets were still in the region of fifty pounds.
  5. For the last ten years Malcolm Sargant's gossip column in the Daily Planet has been   read by thousands of readers.
  6. To award a man like Thomas Green with the greatest lifetime achievement award seems   unfair.
  7. Our test this week is quite challenging in places but the one we got last week was   easy.
  8. There were some exciting moments in the second half of the film but the first ninety minutes were   slow in places.
  9. Hugh Tomlinson is   believed to be the best director of his generation in Hollywood at the moment.
  10. I am   appalled by the thoughtless attitude of people who needlessly endanger other people's lives by using mobiles while driving.
  11. This holiday offer does seem   attractive but I think we are going to have to pass on it because of the high cost.
  12. After all her hard work, Martha was   disappointed when she got a grade B in her CAE exam.

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