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C2ProficiencyTopic: Clauses and linking words

Let alone, what with and all the more

Practise let alone, what with, not that, the more ... the more, all the more and so much so that.

22 questionsby Grove EnglishAdded 11 Nov 2026

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Choose the linking pattern

Choose the correct option for each gap.

  1. I can barely afford the rent, a holiday abroad.

  2. the roadworks and the school run, it took me an hour to get to the office.

  3. He forgot my birthday again. I expected anything different.

  4. The I read about the case, the less I understand it.

  5. The sooner we leave, we'll be home.

  6. She adored Lisbon, she bought a flat there within a year.

  7. I liked him for admitting his mistake.

  8. The car barely holds two adults, three children and a dog.

  9. I haven't had a moment to myself, the move and my mother being in hospital.

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Pages of this quiz

  1. Page 1Choose the linking pattern

    Choose the correct option for each gap.

  2. Page 2Use the word given

    Rewrite each sentence so it means the same. Use the word or words given.

  3. Page 3Find the mistakes

    Some of the sentences are correct. Find and correct the mistakes.

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