Level 6 – Proficient

 TRY THIS TEST:

1. Walking in the garden, it began to rain.

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2. Would you rather I did it?

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3. Jane suggested to go to the theatre.

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4. All I can do is to call the police.

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5. According to me, Mr Brown is not very clever.

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6. Try as he might, he won’t find it.

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7. I was waiting for you but you never came.

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8. Tom suggested that Mary go to university.

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 9. By that time William and Sarah will have travelled through half of Europe.

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10. Would you mind to tell me your name, please?

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 11. She shouldn’t have broken that glass.

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12. But I did do my homework!

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13. Jane asked me if I would tell her the truth.

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14. We were to have tea here.

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 15. Where is the book what I got for my birthday?

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 16. Never have I seen such a beautiful girl.

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 17. John does not like tea, too.

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 18. My mother who is a librarian works a lot.

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19. When I stopped speaking to Ann, she was picking some flowers in her garden.

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20. They can have opened the window.

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1. Incorrect. This sentence would mean that “it” (the rain) was walking in the garden. You must say “We were walking in the garden when it began to rain.”
2. Correct. It means “Do you want me to do it?” or “Would you prefer me to do it?”
3. Incorrect. You mustn’t use “to+Infinitive” after “suggest”. A correct sentence is “Jane suggested going to the theatre” or “Jane suggested that we should go to the theatre.”
4. Correct. 
5. Incorrect. “According to me” is incorrect; you can only use it for other people, not yourself. Use “I think” or “In my opinion” instead.
6. Correct. It means “No matter how hard he tries, he won’t find it.”
7. Correct. It’s not the Present Perfect because of the first part of the sentence (“I was waiting for you”), so we know when it was – then you can’t use the Present Perfect.
8. Correct. It’s a perfect sentence. You can leave out “should” here; “Tom suggested that Mary should go to university” is correct, too.
9. Correct. Future perfect.
10. Incorrect. After “mind”, you must use -ing: “Would you mind telling me your name, please?”
11. Correct. It means it was a mistake that she broke that glass.
12. Correct. It means “But I really did my homework!”
13. Correct. You can use “would” after “if” – this is not a conditional sentence. And actually, you can use it in some conditional sentences, too.
14. Correct. It means “We were planning to have tea here.”
15. Incorrect. “What” is incorrect here. You can use “that” or nothing: “Where is the book (that) I got for my birthday?”
16. Correct. It’s another, stronger way of saying “I have never seen such a beautiful girl.”
17. Incorrect. You mustn’t use “too” in a negative sentence. “John doesn’t like tea, either” is correct.
18. Incorrect. It would mean you have more than one mothers… You need commas here: “My mother, who is a librarian, works a lot.”
19. Incorrect. When I stopped to speak.
20. Incorrect. You can only say: “They could have opened the window.”
 

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