Quizzes B2 Upper-intermediate
English exercises at B2 (Upper-intermediate), with your answers checked.
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B2 · 31 quizzes
- B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Word formation and collocations
Wide, widen, width
Build the noun, verb, adjective or adverb the sentence needs: width, widen, patience, modernise, dangerous, undercooked.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Clauses and linking words
So as not to be late
So as not to, in order not to and so that for purpose; so ... that, such a ... that and too ... to for result.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Phrasal verbs
Put up with it, look forward to it
Three-part phrasal verbs, their meanings and where the object goes. Every answer is a phrasal verb, never a one-word verb.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Nouns and articles
Life, the rich and the tiger
Life and nature with no article, the life of, the tiger for a whole kind, the rich and the young for groups of people.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Verb patterns
I stopped smoking, I stopped to smoke
Remember, forget, stop, try, regret, go on, mean and need, where -ing and to + verb give two different meanings.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Verb patterns
I find it hard to believe
Find it hard to, make it clear that, I'd appreciate it if, easy to use and the first to arrive: where it goes, and where it doesn't.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Emphasis and word order
I do like it, she did call
Do, does and did for emphasis, a stressed have, be or can instead, and do in polite invitations and apologies.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Comparatives and superlatives
Far better and twice as big
Much lighter, by far the best, the more the better, twice as big as, darker and darker: how big the difference is.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Pronouns and determiners
Every day or each day, few or a few
Each and every, the whole and all, few and a few, hardly any, a great deal of and most people: quantifiers that look alike.
12 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Clauses and linking words
Despite the rain or although it rained
Despite and in spite of with a noun or -ing, despite the fact that with a clause, and whereas or while for two different facts.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Prepositions
Accused of, an increase in
Accused of, prevented from, aware of, keen on, an effect on, an increase in: the preposition that goes with each word.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Nouns and articles
A ten-minute walk
A five-year-old son, a two-hour meeting, a well-paid job, a shoe shop: compound adjectives and nouns that describe nouns.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Modal verbs
You should have told me
Should have and shouldn't have for criticism and regret, needn't have for something unnecessary you did, and didn't need to.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Modal verbs
You'd better go, I'd rather stay
Had better for strong advice, would rather for preferences, and it's time + the past simple for something that should happen now.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Clauses and linking words
What I need, all that I need
What for "the thing that", that or nothing after all and everything, which for a whole sentence, and that after know.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Tenses
Was going to, would or was about to
Was going to for plans in the past, would for what someone thought would happen, and was about to for the moment just before.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Verb patterns
Used to work or used to working?
Used to + verb for the past, be used to + -ing for what feels normal, and get used to + -ing for what is becoming normal.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Clauses and linking words
The person I spoke to or to whom I spoke
Prepositions at the end in everyday English, at the front before whom or which in formal English, and only once.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Conditionals
Take an umbrella in case it rains
As long as and provided for a condition, in case for a precaution, unless for if not, and the tense after them.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Modal verbs
She must have forgotten
Must have, might have and can't have + past participle for guesses about the past, and must have been + -ing.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Clauses and linking words
My brother, who lives in Oslo
Non-defining clauses with who, which, whose, where and when, which for a whole sentence, and all of whom.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Conditionals
If I had known: the third conditional
If + past perfect, then would have + past participle: a past that didn't happen, with could have and if it hadn't been for.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Conditionals
I wish I knew, I wish I had known
Wish + past simple or could for now, wish + past perfect for regrets, wish + would for what you want someone to change.
13 questions3 pages - B2 Upper-intermediate, Topic: Passive voice
I had my hair cut
Have or get + object + past participle for a job someone does for you, and for bad luck: she had her phone stolen.
13 questions3 pages