Подсказки для предыдущего теста по английскому языку. Advanced.

Уважаемые читатели, доброго вам дня! 19 ноября вышел тест на знание грамматики английского языка уровня Advanced. В этой статье мы бы хотели разместить подсказки, которые помогут вам его пройти. Надеемся, что они будут полезными!

В тесте было 9 вопросов, на каждый из которых 1 правильный ответ. Сами правильные ответы вы сможете увидеть внизу, когда пройдете тест.

Здесь мы размещаем только подсказки.

1. I can’t believe that you wrote a seven-page proposal in one day. That _____________________.

If we want to say that we are 95% sure that something happened, we use must have + past participle. We normally use should have + past participle to talk about criticism and regrets.

Exhausting and exhausted are not interchangeable. We use exhausting to talk about the cause of the exhaustion, and we use exhausted to talk about the receiver of the exhaustion. This rule applies for words like boring/bored, interesting/interested, exciting/excited, terrifying/terrified, etc.

2. I know a lot about Microsoft Excel. If you ____________.

This is a third conditional (also called the past unreal conditional).

3. One of my coworkers gave me some good advice. She suggested ___________________.

We need the subjunctive form here.

4. I stopped ________________________.

We can use the verb stop with both the gerund and the infinitive. When we use stop with the gerund, it means that someone was doing something and then stopped doing that action. When we use stop with the infinitive, it means that someone stopped doing something in order to start doing something else.

Also, we need the preposition to between respond and emails. We say respond to (something).

5. __________ I work on this all day, I’ll never finish on time.

We use even though or although for something that is true. We use even if to talk about a hypothetical condition.

In this example, we’re talking about something hypothetical, so we need even if. Despite and in spite of are incorrect because they must be followed by a noun or gerund, not a subject and a verb.

6. Everything is a bit confusing. I’m not sure _______________.

We can use supposed to to talk about something that is planned or expected. The correct form is subject + to be + supposed to + base infinitive.

Also, this is a statement and not a question, so we do not invert the subject and verb.

7. If I were you ______________.

This is a mixed conditional.

8. My previous boss always insisted ______________. He didn’t tolerate people arriving late.

We need the subjunctive form here.

9. I hope the client will let _____________.

Let is followed by an object and the base infinitive (infinitive without to). Other verbs that follow this pattern include help, make, and have (when have is used to communicate obligation).