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1. ____ my question before you ___ to bed? a)Will you answer/go b)Are you answering/go
Could you explain me why "a" is wrong?!?
2.I �d rather ____ a new car last year but we couldn �t afford ___ and____ our holiday abroad. a)bought/changing our car/spending b)have bought/to change our car/to spend
I choose "b" but the right answer is "a".... I know that after afford we use to inf. and not gerund...Also I think in this exercises the wish refers about a past moment not a present moment...I �m wrong?!?
3. Apologize someone ON or FOR being late?!?
4. Our neighbour seems _____ his walls ever since I came back. a)to have been drilling b)have been drilling
5.___ the clothes off the line before it ___ to rain. a)You�d better take/starts b)I prefer you to take/starts Are these both correct?
In my opinion in the first case both are correct. Perhaps are you answering is a better choice since you have already asked the person so her decision to answer or not won �t be spontaneous, I also believe that the person here could be impatient so it�s a way of expressing that... but will you sounds better, doesn�t it?
In the second case I�m confused cause I agree with you, it refers to a past moment and would rather is followed by infinitive so the correct one is b.... I �m not familiarize with the use of afford in a. I don �t think is correct. By the way, there �s a mistake in b, surely a tipping one, it should say to spend.
Apologize for
Number 4 is a. Seems to
Finally in number 5 I believe both are correct, but a sounds more natural.
Hope it helps and that someone else can clarify number 2!
These are examples of yet more poor questions in ESL textbooks that contain several errors and penalise better students who are familiar with commonly used colloquial English!
1. a) is the most grammatically correct, but b) does make sense and reflects what a native speaker might say to emphasize impatience having already asked before.
2. b) is the nearest, as the first 2 options are correct, but the third option is wrong. Even though "afford" is always followed by the infinitive, when doubling up the second infinitive should be bare, i.e. we need to drop the "to":
"I �d rather have bought a new car last year but we couldn �t afford to change our car and spend our holiday abroad.
3. For
4. Seems to have been drilling
5. Only a) is correct. b) can be made to work, again to add emphasis by an impatient speaker by adding "would" so that it becomes:
"I would prefer you to take the clothes off the line before it rains" (stress on before)
These are my �answers �! I hope it helps you!I solved it by guessing.Some sentences look strange. I will take a deeper look at then afterwards and try to write a more detailed post.
Regards,
Gisele
1) Letter A
2) Letter A
3) Acording to the OXFORD COLLOCATIONS
DICTIONARY for is the right answer in this case.Take a look
at the examples:
PREP.for She apologized for being late. | to He apologized to his
colleagues.
if you WANT
someone to answer your question, a) would be correct. if you are curious to
know if someone is in the process of answering your question, b) would be
correct.
2)
i don �t like either of the answers! :p
you can �t say, "i �d rather bought"
you �d have to say "i �d rather have bought"
3) for
4)
yes, a. BUT, there is subject/verb disagreement in the question. it
can only be "neighbors seem" or "neighbor seems," not "neighbors seems"
5)
it �s a). but b) sounds like a very spanish construction
cause I agree with you, it refers to a past moment and would rather is followed by infinitive so the correct one is b.... I �m not familiarize with the use of afford in a. I don �t think is correct. By the way, there �s a mistake in b, surely a tipping one, it should say to spend.
