SOME GRAMMATICAL PRACTICE FOR YOUR PAU EXAM

2.1 Verbos modales. (Modal verbs)

􀀗Translate the following sentences.

a. Puede que llueva mañana. ___________________________________________________.

b. No puede ser el coche de tu tía. ___________________________________________________.

c. No puedes dormir en clase. ___________________________________________________.

d. ¿Me puede traer un vaso de agua? ___________________________________________________.

e. El debe haber conducido toda la noche. _______________________________________________.

f. ¿Sabes jugar al fútbol? ___________________________________________________.

g. Cuando lleguemos, puede que la fiesta ya haya terminado. _____________________________.

2.2 Oraciones Condicionales. (Conditional clauses)

􀀗 Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses.

1. If you pass your examination, we ____________(have) a celebration.

2. If you go to Paris, where you ____________ (stay)?

3. If you ____________ (read) the instructions carefully, you wouldn’t have answered the wrong

question.

4. Unless they turn the radio off, I ____________ (go) mad.

5. You’ll get pneumonia if you ____________ (not change) your wet clothes.

6. If anyone attacked me, my dog ____________ (jump) at his throat.

7. If you drove your car into the river, you (be able to) ____________ get out?

8. What you ____________ (do) if you found a burglar in your house?

9. If I had realised that the traffic lights were red, I ____________ (stop).

10. She had a headache, otherwise she ____________ (come) with us.

11. If I ____________ (win) a big prize in a lottery, I’d give up my job.

12. If I ____________ (have) a mad, I would have been all right.

13. If I see him, I ____________ (give) him a lift.

14. If I find your passport, I ____________ (telephone) you.

15. If you ____________ (not believe) what I say, ask your mother.

2.3 Pasiva. (Passive sentences)

􀀗 Put the following sentences into the passive voice.

1. Nobody cleaned the room last week.

2. You may buy some flowers.

3. I wasn’t talking to anyone.

4. They believe he is in Spain.

5. The police believe that the thief stole 100 mill. € .

6. They claim he carried out the murder.

7. My mother doesn’t let me do anything.

8. They didn’t let anyone go home peacefully.

9. They are demolishing the entire block.

10. Has someone posted my parcel?

11. People will shoe the visitors the new buildings.

12. A guide pointed out the Pyramids to me.

13. They turned my offer down.

14. People say that he is armed.

15. They brought the children up in Italy.

16. A lorry knock him down.

17. They haven’t stamped the letter.

18. Tom smith wrote the book and Brown and Co. published it.

19. Don’t touch this switch!

20. A Japanese firm makes these TV sets.

2.4 Estilo Indirecto. (Reported speech)

􀀗 Put the following sentences into reported speech.

1. “I am busy”, he told me.

2. “I’ve been in London for a year”, said your friend.

3. “I’ve just talked to her”, John told me.

4. “The teacher will take down your name tomorrow”, my classmates told me.

5. “I can’t live on my basic salary”, said Peter.

6. “Don’t swim here”, they advised.

7. “Don’t forget to take your glasses”, said Mr. Brown.

8. “Don’t lend Harry any money”, I told Ann.

9. “Make good use of time”, they recommended me.

10. “Where is your sister?”, Antonio asked Felipe.

11. “How much do you think it cost?”, he said.

12. “Where did it happen?”, I asked.

13. “Do you often get up at 7.00?”, my friend asked Lorena.

14. “Are you coming tonight?”, she asked me.

15. “Did you understand that?”, he asked me.

2.5 Clausulas de Relativo. (Relative clauses)

􀀗 Join the two sentences using a relative pronoun.

1. Ann said that there were far too many notices. Ann’s children could swim very well.

2. I met Mary. She asked me to give Peter a present.

3. The lorry crashed into a bus load of school children. Six of them were injured.

4. We lit a fire. It soon dried out our clothes.

5. Tom had been driving all day. He was tired and wanted to stop.

6. Paul wanted to take the mountain road. His tyres were nearly new.

7. Ann had been sleeping in the car. She felt quite fresh.

8. Juan speaks English very well. His mother is Swedish.

9. The story sounds incredible. It is true.

10. The storm damaged the lorry. Its driver is a friend of mine.