Test General Flashcards
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I’m very happy _____ in India. I really miss being there.
to have lived
We use the perfect infinitive or the perfect gerund of a verb to talk about a past action or event. In this sentence, we mean that I lived in India in the past, but not anymore.
➪ We normally use** to** + infinitive after adjectives.
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They didn’t reach an agreement ______ their differences
on account of
We can use because of, due to, owing to, or on account of + noun to express reason.
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I wish I _____ those words. But now it’s too late.
d. had never said
We can use wish + past perfect to talk about things that happened in the past and that we regret (we would have wanted them to be different).
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The woman, who has been missing for 10 days, is believed ___
to have been abducted
➪ After the passive form of a reporting verb, we use the perfect infinitive when the reported action is previous to the reporting (earlier in the past).
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She was working on her computer with her baby next to _____.
➪her
We can use reflexive pronouns after most prepositions, but we don’t use reflexive pronouns after prepositions of place; we use object pronouns instead.
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_____ to offend anyone, she said both cakes were equally good.
Not wanting
➪ We can use –ing participle clauses to refer to the present or the past.
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_____ in trying to solve this problem. It’s clearly unsolvable.
There’s no point
We often use there with use, point and need.
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Last year, when I last met her, she told me she _____ a letter every day for the last two months
had been writing
We use the past perfect continuous with dynamic verbs to talk about repeated actions from earlier in the past.
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He _____ robbed as he was walking out of the bank
In informal English, we can use get in passive voice sentences instead of be
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_____ forced to do anything. He acted of his own free will
➪ In formal English we can place a negative or restrictive adverb at the beginning of a sentence to make the sentence more emphatic or dramatic. When we do this, the adverb is then followed by auxiliary verb + subject. When there is no auxiliary verb, we use do/does (present) or did (past) as auxiliary.
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It _____ the best idea to pay for those tickets by credit card. It was too risky.
may not have been
➪ We use might/may have + past participle or might/may have been + -ing to say that it’s possible that something was true or happened in the past.
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They _____ in the basement for three months.
➪ We can use the verbs let, make, and help followed by object + infinitive without to. However, when we use the verb make in the passive voice, we say be made + to infinitive.
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We’ll never know what might have happened _____ the email earlier.
had he sent
➪ This is a third conditional sentence. In third conditional sentences, we can invert the auxiliary verb had and leave if out. Had we arrived = If we had arrived.
If success _____, we need to prepare ourselves for every possible scenario.
is to be achieved
➪ We often use be to + infinitive in a if-clause. In these cases, we say what should be done (main clause) to achieve the desired result (if-clause).
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______ gifts to the judges.
It’s not permitted to offer
➪ We can use it + be (not) permitted to +infinitive to express permission or prohibition in formal or official situations, to say what the rules or laws are. We do NOT use it + be able to/be allowed to.
