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Grammar

This document contains grammar exercises involving correcting verb tenses, changing verbs to passive voice, identifying syntactic elements, and correcting grammar mistakes found in song lyrics. The exercises range from elementary to advanced levels and involve applying grammatical rules and choosing the correct grammatical forms.

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Grammar

This document contains grammar exercises involving correcting verb tenses, changing verbs to passive voice, identifying syntactic elements, and correcting grammar mistakes found in song lyrics. The exercises range from elementary to advanced levels and involve applying grammatical rules and choosing the correct grammatical forms.

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Elementary level

01.
Write the appropriate tense form of verbs:
Here's a little song I ..... (write)
You might want to .... (sing) it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we ...... (have) some trouble
But when you .... (worry) you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Ain't got no place to .... (lay) your head
Somebody ..... (come) and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord .... (say) your rent is late
He may ... (have) to litigate
Don't worry, be happy
2.
Insert the appropriate verbs in the present simple:
I wanna follow where she 1)......
I think about her and she 2)...... it go
I wanna let her take control
'Cause everytime that she 3)..... close, yeah know
She 4).... me in enough to keep me guessing (mmm)
And maybe I should stop and start confessing get
Confessing, yeah
Oh, I've been shaking pull
I 5)...... it when you go crazy
You 6)..... all my inhibitions
love
Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back
You take me places that 7)..... ... my reputation
take
7)....... my decisions tear up
Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back
There's nothing holdin' me back manipulate
There's nothing holdin' me back
01. Intermediate level
Write the verbs in the appropriate form:

Would you dance, if I ......(ask) you to dance?


Would you run, and never look back?
Would you cry, if you .....(see) me crying?
Would you save my soul, tonight?
....... you ......(tremble), if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh? Oh please, tell me this
Now would you die, for the one you loved?
Hold me in your arms, tonight
2.
Put the phrases in bold in the passive voice:
I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now
I heard that your dreams came true
Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you
Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light
I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it
I had hoped you'd see my face
And that you'd be reminded that for me, it isn't over
01. Advanced level:
Determine what syntactical element of the sentence the
words in bold are:
Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing makes us feel alive
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen still.
2.
Describe the predicates in bold:
The club isn't the best place to find a lover
So the bar is where I go
Me and my friends at the table doing shots
Drinking fast and then we talk slow
Come over and start up a conversation with just me
And trust me I'll give it a chance now
Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox
And then we start to dance, and now I'm singing like
Girl, you know I want your love
Your love was handmade for somebody like me
01.
Grammar mistakes in songs
"If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go..."

Offer solutions as in the example. Use 2nd Conditional.


Example:
I want to make a present for my mother. (buy her flowers) - If I were
you, I would buy her flowers.

1.I am tired. (go to bed)


2.I want to lose some weight. (join a gym)
3.Someone has stolen my wallet. (call the police)
4.I'm not in the mood. (watch a comedy)
5.It's so sunny outside. (walk outside)
2.
"A little party never killed nobody..."

Choose the correct word(s) to complete each sentence.


1. There aren't (no/any) rules left to break.
2. The new job did not offer (any/none) of the perks she was
hoping for.
3. None of the women (didn't notice/noticed) when the dog ran
away.
4. The driver couldn't find (a/no) place to park.
5. Frank didn't mention (neither/either) the book report (nor/or)
the quiz.

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