Grammar

Level C1

Part 1 - Mixed Exercise

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For questions 1-10, choose the correct answer.

1

Word Order

Hardly .......... the keynote begin when the livestream crashed.

did

was

has

had

2

Articles

She’s .......... only analyst on the team who can model the risk without a spreadsheet.

the

3

Present Tenses

I .......... (to look) for that report for an hour, and it still hasn’t surfaced.

have been looking

have looked

am looking

look

4

Past Tenses

By the time the auditors arrived, we .......... the discrepancy and logged it.

were already spotting

have already spotted

had already spotted

already spotted

5

Future Tense

Don’t call her between two and three; she .......... the board through the revised budget then.

will be walking

will have walked

is walking

will walk

6

Passive Voice

The whistleblower claimed that key emails .......... before the investigation officially began.

have been deleted

had deleted

were deleted

had been deleted

7

Modal Verbs

You .......... have copied the client on that email; it was a confidential draft.

shouldn’t

might not

don’t have to

can’t

8

Phrasal Verbs

If you .......... the jargon, the proposal is surprisingly straightforward.

strip away

bring about

take over

run into

9

Conditionals

If the supplier .......... transparent about the delay, we .......... our launch plan sooner.

was / would adjust

has been / would have adjusted

had been / would have adjusted

had been / will have adjusted

10

Reported Speech

Mina said, “I can’t vouch for these figures.” → Mina said that she .......... for those figures.

hadn’t vouched

couldn’t vouch

can’t vouch

wouldn’t vouch

What to do

This part consists of a number of assessments, each of which has only one valid answer.

Select the best answer according to what you read.

There's only one valid answer

There's only a correct answer which you will have to select by clicking on it.

Don't spend unnecessary time

Don't spend time in an assessment you don't know. Wasting time on this activity might cost you points later in the exam because you won’t have enough time to do other tasks well. Get used to being quick!

Grammar is a must

Although these grammar tests are not part of the official Cambridge exams, they are still important as they touch on language elements that you'll come across in all parts of the official exams, such as Reading and Use of English.

Strategy

Read the assessment so you understand what it is about.
Pay attention to the topic on the top-right corner of each assessment.
Check the words before and after each gap and look for grammatical collocations.
Remember that you select a choice by clicking on it.

Instructions

For questions 1-10, choose the correct answer.

Exercise Details

Author

Pascaru Adelina

@pascaru-adelina

User Prompt

"Create a mixed exercise for grammar in use practice"

Tone: Standard

Level: C1

Created on:

Sep 14, 2026

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