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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Vocabulary: Types of writing

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

  1. My friend Anthony has just written a new book. His first   was about a fictional Bishop who lived in 17th Century Scotland.
  2. In her   the actress Anna Sharpe reveals the intense dissastisafaction her parents have shown throughout her life at her choice of profession.
  3. When James Flynt wrote his first novel, it took him six months to find a publisher that would even read the   let alone publish it as a book.
  4. Recently, researchers have gone back and examined Alexander Fleming's original laboratory   to see if he falsified his findings and did not in fact discover penicillin.
  5. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most famous   because it has been made into several major movies.
  6. In his   of the famous composer, Beethoven, the writer Julian Hargreaves argues that Beethoven may have started going deaf as early as his late teens.
  7. When writing an academic paper it is of utmost importance that a properly cross-referenced   is included, listing all papers and published texts that the writer has made reference to.
  8. In the original   for the film Titanic, both of the main characters died at the end, but the director changed the story to make it less tragic.
  9. The instruction   for the photocopier states clearly that the machine must be positioned in a well-ventilated room.
  10. It wasn't until a young journalist wrote a(n)   for Time Magazine on the subject, that anybody thought to question the profits of the multinational trading company Enron.
  11. In your   , you clearly stated that you had extensive experience in the field of neurosurgery but when I contacted your former professor he informed me that this was not the case.
  12. In a recent government   , the police officers on duty at the time of the hijacking were praised for their handling of the situation.

Your answers

 

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