English Grammar Worksheet - St John'S School (Page 4 of 7) in pdf

English Grammar Worksheet - St John'S School Page 4

38. I tried to …………… around the final bend during the race

(speeding, accelerate, kindness stale, citizen)

39. I felt the pain when I trod on a …………………..of glass (childish,

metallic, dreadful, sliver, charming)

40. What a …………………meeting you like this! ( surprising,

matching, coincidence, brutish, worldly

41. The plane ……………… when it hit the ground (disintegrated,

orchestrate, spinning, crashing, disappoint)

42. The sad music made us feel very……………… (happiness, startled,

groundless, melancholy, colourful)

43. The whistle ………. the end of the match (finished, troublesome,

pointless, signified, phantom)

44. Many ……………. of ape are on the point of becoming extinct

(special, mystified, lighthouse, jovial, species)

45. The pain form my broken leg was…………………(interesting,

intolerable, happiness, efficient, kinetic)

46. A judge is not allowed to take sides, he must be ……………

(legitimate, secure, impartial, trivial, splendour)

47. Driving in an open-top car can be……………….. (boring,

troublesome, exhilarating, trembling, scared)

48. We are a ……………… country and everyone is allowed to vote

(disinterested, available, guided, democratic, communism)

49. ‘It is …………. to struggle’, said the guard to his prisoner (futile,

silliness, promised, boundless, bribery)

50. The ………….professor never changed his clothes (happiness,

academic, eccentric, appealing, sought)

51. Some ………………… soldiers were fighting as guerrillas in the

desert (badly, regiment, renegade, armies, proudly)

52. The first ………….bomb helped to win the Second World War

(atomic, secondly, detonate, destruction, blatant)

53. The roads in Birmingham ……………….out from the centre

(parallel, boundary, radiate, stretching, curling)

54. I have ….. a lot of expense on our holiday to Barbados.

(incurred, embarrassed, wanted, seemingly, pointed)

55. The Prime Minister is very …..and does not consult his ministers

(rudeness, helpful, autocratic, challenging, piquant)

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