English Grammar Worksheet - St John'S School (Page 6 of 7) in pdf

English Grammar Worksheet - St John'S School Page 6

71. My Hoover is very………………..and I can’t buy any spare parts

(untidy, antiquated, journal, secrecy, liberal)

72. I heard a ………………sound coming from the music room where

the quartet were playing ( strained, uncertain, secondary,

mellifluous, hybrid)

73. Today governments try to make forests ………………, by planting

more trees than they chop down ( extinct, revolutionary,

sustainable, production, termination)

74. My finances are in a ………………… state, and I need to talk to my

accountant about saving money (parlous, seriously,

understandable, directory, suggestible)

75. Your ………….is so poor that I cannot understand what you say

(dressage, behaviour, laudanum, helix, contemporary, diction)

76. Whether God exists is an interesting ………………. question

(religion, philosophical, simian, legitimately, lugubrious)

77. It is the …… of celebrities to arrive late for appointments

(symbol, chance, prerogative, trend, affluence)

78. After twenty days without food, the castaway looked very

…………….. (happiness, hopeless, gaunt, tribal, forsook)

79. The clerk consulted an ……………….. Latin law book to find the

answer which the solicitor asked for ( archangel, archaic,

archaeology, specious, spurious)

80. Your ……………. schemes for the house are going to be too

expensive (grandiose, intelligent, parsimonious, understated,

specific)

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