review exercises for basic usage and elementary and pre-intermediate grammar with answers

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Answers. An intermediate student should have these all correct.

01. The referee bore with fortitude the insults of the football hooligans.

02. His captors bound him hand and foot.

03. His artery severed, the injured man bled to death before help could be summoned.

04. He bred tropical fish as a hobby.

05. Not until they had built the bridge did they discover that it swayed dangerously when the west wind blew.

06. For two days the drowning man clung to the lifebelt.

07. As fast as their father blew up the balloons, the children burst them.

08. From dawn to dusk, the gardener dug the garden.

09. At the weekend, our neighbours flung a noisy party to which they did not invite us.

10. Scottish law forbade the playing of golf on Sundays.

11. When he got angry, he ground his teeth.

12. The philosopher sought the truth.

13. The clock was slow so I wound it on.

14. It hurt when the elephant trod on his foot.

15. The pig sty stank.