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Level B2

Part 1 - Multiple Choice

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For Questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.

When to Use "to"

When learning English, many students feel confident about grammar until they meet the small word (0) TO. It appears in lots of places, but the rules are not always obvious. After question words, we often use *to* + infinitive: for example, "I don’t know (1) .......... to say" or "Can you show me (2) .......... to do it?" This structure is common when the subject is the same person. *To* is also used after certain adjectives. It’s natural to say "I’m happy (3) .......... help" or "She was surprised (4) .......... hear the news". Without *to*, these sentences sound incomplete. Finally, some verbs are followed by *to* + infinitive, but others are not. For instance, we say "I forgot (5) .......... lock the door" (meaning I didn’t lock it), and "He decided (6) .......... leave early". However, with *stop*, the meaning changes: "stop (7) .......... smoke" means quit the habit, while "stop to smoke" means pause in order to smoke. If you pay attention to these patterns, you’ll soon know (8) .......... to use *to* and when not to.

What to do

In this part, you read a text with eight gaps and choose the best word from four options to fit each gap.

Nothing prepares you for this test better than reading.

Read a lot. Candidates who often read in English (for work, for fun) find this part of the test manageable, while those who never read tend to find it very hard.

If you are 100% sure that two of the 4 choices are completely identical, then neither can be the answer. There is always only one word that fits grammatically and has the right meaning.

Usually the correct option will be part of a fixed phrase or collocation, a phrasal verb, a connector or the only word that fits grammatically in the gap.

Strategy

  1. Read the title and the whole text quickly to understand its general meaning before you attempt the task.
  2. Check the words before and after the gap.
  3. Choose the best option.
  4. When you have finished, read the text again with the words inserted to check that it makes sense.

Instructions

For Questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.

Exercise Details

Author

gamze pişgin

@gamze-pisgin

User Prompt

"The use of "to" (after question words, after adjectives, and after some verbs such as forget and stop)."

Tone: Standard
Level: B2

Created on:

Feb 26, 2026

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