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Hi! Here I am again with the next “portion” of the intermediate grammar as I am not satisfied with the results of my previous test. You all know what to do: you should find and correct all the mistakes in each sentence.

There you go!

1. Letter brought before I left (3 mistakes).
2. When I packed my stuff, somebody knocked at the door (2).
3. He asked will I take part at the conference (3).
4. She put aside the letter she wrote and started to think (3).
5. There was the nice day for walk (3).
6. I am interesting of history (2).
7. When I came for the party, everybody left the table and danced (3).
8. I, together with my wife go on vacation after a week (3).
9. I asked how many classes will she teach the next day (2).
10. I didn’t know I waited  my friend the day before (3).
11. It was much puddles in the street (4).
12. He felt himself best after he took medicine (3).
13. I didn’t know he got sick and called off  meeting (2).
14. I hardy might decide whose guilt was it (3).
15. If you will go on make  same mistakes, I retire at EC!(5)!!!!!!!

The deadline for this test is February 6.

Have a great time and good luck!

February 6.

My friends, here are the correct sentences together with my explanations. If you still have any questions, don't hesitate to ask them, OK?

1. The letter had been brought before I left (3 mistakes).
2. When I was packing my stuff, somebody knocked on the door (2).
3. He asked if I would/will take part in the conference (3).
4. She put away/down the letter she was writing/had written and started thinking (3).
5. It was a nice day for a walk/walking (3).
6. I am interested in history (2).
7. When I came to the party, everybody had left the table and was dancing (3).
8. I, together with my wife am going for vacation in a week (2).
9. I asked how many classes ___she taught the next day (2).
10. I didn’t know I had been waited by my friend the day before (3).
11. There were many puddles on the street (4).
12. He felt __better after he had taken the/his medicine (3). Or He felt better after taking….
13. I didn’t know he had got sick and called off the meeting (2).
14. I could hardy decide whose guilt it was (3).
15. If you __go on doing the same mistakes, I will retire from EC!(5)!!!!!!!

Now, I will explain some mistakes.

1.It is the passive voice. One action preceded the other, so it is the past perfect tense.

2. I was in the process of packing, it is the past progressive tense. When we knock, we touch the door.

3. It is the reported question. There must be the direct word order. The idiom is TO TAKE PART IN.

4. When we hold something, we PUT it AWAY/DOWN or SET it ASIDE. About the tenses. I think while writing a letter she got some idea. So, she didn’t finish it and started thinking over that idea, maybe, what else to say or how to end the letter. But it is quite possible that she finished the letter and started thinking about something else. I’d like you to realize the difference. When you change the tense, you change the meaning of the sentence. START must be followed by a gerund.

5. I have already explained in the blog about IT IS and THERE IS.

6. It is the passive voice. If something interests us we say “I am interested in it”.

7. The guests had left the table before I came and were dancing when I entered.

8. In this sentence, the subject is “I”. So, the verb must be in the first person, singular. I am speaking about my plans for the nearest future, so, there must be the present progressive tense. When we say that we are leaving our place to spend a vacation somewhere else, we say “I am going for vacation”. But if we mean we did/going to something during a vacation, we say “On my vacation I was in Europe”.

9. This question was asked on some day in the past. Teachers teach classes on schedule and I have already explained that if we speak about the future action taking place on schedule, we use the simple present tense. In this case, we should use the past simple tense as we mean the future in the past.

10. It is quite clear that somebody waited for me and I didn’t know about that. So the next day I would say “I didn’t know I had been waited by my friend”. It is the passive voice.

11. I have already explained how to use THERE IS and IT IS and whatever you see on the ground is ON the street.

12. TO FEEL is an intransitive verb, it can’t be followed by any complement. And, of course, first, he took some medicine and then he started feeling better.

13. Somebody got sick and called off the meeting, but I didn’t know about it.

14. HARDLY must be inside a compound predicate. It is not a question or inversion. So, we need a direct word order at the end of the sentence.

15. We use the present tenses in the future conditional clause while we use the future tenses in the main clause. TO GO ON must be followed by a gerund. We always say THE SAME. We retire FROM our jobs.

Thank you all for being so active and curious! I will post one more intermediate test very soon.