intermediate level
Practice English Grammar Exercises for B1 B2with Answer
Tenses
1 Present simple and present continuous
I’m holding my breath.
2 Past simple and past continuous
He was driving on a dark night.
They used to pay soldiers in salt.
4 Present perfect, past simple, present simple
Many famous people have studied at Harvard.
5 Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
She’s been living here for 30 years.
6 Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous
Scientists had been studying a hurricane.
What will the future be like?
8 Present continuous and present simple for future use; future continuous
We’ll be flying from Hong Kong to Bangkok.
9 Future perfect and other future forms
Will they all have gone?
Review: present, past and future forms
Modal
10 Modals of ability and obligation 1
Six astronauts can stay there.
11 Modals of ability and obligation 2
He should have given the dog a biscuit.
12 Possibility and certainty in the present and future
It must be 3.
13 Possibility and certainty in the past
It must already have been there.
14 Requests, permission, offers, suggestions, promises
Could you take your hat off, please?
Questions, multi-word verbs and verb structures
What is language?
Babies don’t have teeth, do they?
17 Multi-word verbs 1: prepositional verbs
What are you looking for?
18 Multi-word verbs 2: phrasal verbs
Throw away the remote control.
19 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing
He decided to run without shoes.
20 Verb + object + to-infinitive
Greg made the children work 60 hours a week.
21 Linking verbs: be, get, feel, etc.
It looks a bit yellow but it tastes great.
Review: questions; multi-word verbs; verb structures
Determiners and prepositions
A famous code
Anything can happen in the mountains
There are plenty of activities
25 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
Do it yourself!
26 Prepositions of place, movement and time
We waited in front of a petrol station.
Throw her to the dogs!
He was terrible at spelling.
Review: articles; quantifiers, pronouns; prepositions
Adjectives, adverbs, the passive and conditionals
Totally amazing!
A three-year-old speaks much more fluently.
The most dangerous fish is …
He climbs the monument regularly.
The new metal was called bronze.
They deserve to be mentioned.
35 Zero, first and second conditionals
If you think you can, you can.
36 Third conditional, I wish, If only
I wish I had heard those songs.
We can change the world if people listen to us.
Review: comparatives and superlatives; the passive; conditionals
Word formation and sentences
They said their son was flying.
If you are wondering why glaciers are interesting …
The companies who connect people to the Internet
41 Non-defining relative clauses
‘I thought it was dumb, which shows he’s smarter than I am!’
42 Word formation 1: verbs and adjectives (affixes)
Scrabble – the international game
43 Word formation 2: nouns (affixes)
You need imagination, self-confidence …
Do you find it difficult to sleep?
45 Linking words 1: addition, contrast and time
Once you have read one …
46 Linking words 2: reason, purpose and result
Why? Because the roads were bad.
Review: indirect speech; relative clauses; word formation; it and there; linking words