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Mixed grammar practice CEFR B2 Topic: Mixed grammar points across everyday life, work, study, travel, health, technology, relationships and money

Mixed Grammar Challenge: Everyday Situations

What this tests: a range of grammar in one exercise — tenses, conditionals, modal verbs, the passive, reported speech, relative clauses, comparison and quantifiers, one point per sentence.

Instructions

For questions 1–8, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence.

1. If I more free time, I would learn to cook properly.

A — have B — would have C — will have D — had

2. By the time she retires next year, Elena for this company for over twenty years.

A — will have worked B — worked C — will work D — works

3. At last week's meeting, the CEO promised that salaries the following quarter.

A — would be increased B — will be increased C — are increased D — had been increased

4. The university my sister studies is renowned for its medical research.

A — where B — whose C — that D — which

5. She looks exhausted; she slept properly last night.

A — needn't have B — can't have C — must have D — shouldn't have

6. This secondhand laptop, which I've had for three years, is more reliable than the brand-new one my colleague bought last month.

A — too B — much C — very D — so

7. When we were teenagers, we in the same street, so we saw each other every day.

A — used to living B — would live C — used to live D — are used to living

8. I invited several friends on the climbing trip, but of them had ever used a harness before, so we had to cancel for safety reasons.

A — a little B — a few C — few D — little

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