Grammar quiz - phase 2

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Match the example and the structure to the reason each structure is used (i - x below).

_v. _    _c_1. future simple                                c. I will probably see you at the meeting.

____    _a_2. past continuous                                       a. I was eating dinner when you called.

____    _i_3. present continuous                       i. I’m reading a really interesting book.

____    _g_4. present perfect                             g. I have been to Paris twice.

____    _f_5. past perfect                                   f. She asked my name, but I had met her before.

____    _b_6. past perfect continuous               b. They had been walking for hours when it started to rain.

____    _h_7. modal auxiliary (of obligation)   h. You must present your passport.

____    _j_8. past modal (of deduction)            j. Her coat is gone; she must have gone home already.

____    _e_9. 2nd conditional                              e. If I were taller, I would play basketball.

____    _d_10. passive voice                             d. His wallet was stolen while he was on the subway.

 

i. to speculate about the probability of something in the past

ii. for an action in progress at a specific time in the past

iii. to focus on the receiver of the action instead of the doer

iv. for a hypothetical situation in the present or future

Xv. for a spontaneous decision or a future prediction

vi. for an action that happened before another action in the past

vii. for an ongoing past action happening before a single past action

viii. for an action in progress in the present

ix. to indicate obligation, permission, or lack of permission

x. for an action that happened at an unspecified time in the past, which is relevant to the present


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