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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Vocabulary: Famous English Proverbs

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

  1. A   in time saves nine.
  2. Where there's a will, there's a   .
  3. One man's   is another man's poison.
  4.   before you leap.
  5. Too many   spoil the broth.
  6. Out of   , out of mind.
  7. Absence makes the heart grow   .
  8. The   is always greener on the other side of the fence.
  9. He who laughs   laughs longest.
  10. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing   .
  11. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry   .
  12. A(n)   in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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