Check grammar and vocabulary in context
Eight everyday situations. Choose the sentence or meaning that fits.
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1. You started working here three years ago and still work here.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: I have worked here for three years.
Use the present perfect for work that started in the past and continues now. "For" introduces a duration, such as three years; "since" introduces a starting point, such as 2023.
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2. You want a colleague to give you suggestions.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: Could you give me some advice?
"Advice" is normally uncountable in this use. Say "some advice" or "a piece of advice", not "an advice" or "advices".
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3. Your team needs to choose between two options.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: We need to make a decision today.
The usual expression is "make a decision". Here it means choose an option, not create an invented decision or use "do".
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4. You sent a report yesterday and want to say when you sent it.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: I sent it yesterday.
Use the past simple, "sent", with a finished past time such as yesterday. The present perfect does not normally go with that finished-time expression.
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5. You do not have time to join a colleague, but imagine that you did.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: I'd join you if I had time.
"Would" plus the base verb goes with "if" plus a past form for this hypothetical situation. "Had" here does not mean that the invitation happened in the past.
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6. You want to say that someone wrote the report last week, without naming who.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: The report was written last week.
The past passive uses "was" or "were" plus the past participle. The participle of "write" is "written", not "wrote".
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7. The organiser tells you about a workshop.
You don't have to bring a laptop.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: Bringing a laptop is optional.
"Do not have to" means there is no obligation. It is different from "must not", which expresses a prohibition.
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8. It was raining, but you still went for a walk.
Your answer:
Suggested answer: Although it was raining, we went for a walk.
"Although" can introduce a clause with a subject and verb. "Despite" normally takes a noun or an -ing form: "despite the rain" or "despite it raining".