English in Mind

Level 4

Grammar Practice

PHOTOCOPIABLE

GRAMMAR PRA

CTICE

1

Match the two sentences. 

1

  I didn’t need to get up early today as I had a day off. 

2

  I needn’t have got up early today as I had a day off.

3

  You needn’t have watered the plants this morning.  

4

  You needn’t have reserved a table. 

5

  You didn’t need to tell me to switch off my mobile. 

6

  I didn’t need to study last weekend. 

4

Read the dialogues. Write 
didn’t need to or needn’t 
have in the spaces. 

Oliver:

 

Happy birthday, Mum! 

Here’s your present.

Clare:

 

Thanks, Oliver. You 

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didn’t need to

 

get me a 

present.

Oliver:

 

Of course I did, it’s your 

birthday.

Clare:

 

Wow! What a beautiful 

dress. Thank you! You

 

2

 

spent so 

much money on me.

Oliver:

 

I know I 

3

, 

but I 

wanted to.

 

Patrick:

 

I can’t believe it. You’ve 

done all the washing up and 

cleaned the kitchen.

Agatha:

 

Yes. I’ve been busy all 

afternoon.

Patrick:

 

You 

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done the washing up, it was 

my turn.

Agatha:

 

I know it was your 

turn.

 

Patrick:

 

And you 

5

 

clean the 

kitchen either. I was planning 

to do it later.

Agatha:

 

Yeah, right. So, I 

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do the 

washing up and

 

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cleaned the 

kitchen. Your turn next time, 

Patrick!

a

  The restaurant was empty. 

b

  So I stayed in bed until ten o’clock; what luxury!

c

  It’s obvious it has to be off in class.

d

  It’s been raining all afternoon.

e

  But I got up at the same time as normal and 

now I’m tired.

f

  All my exams had fi nished. 

2

Rewrite the sentence using a present participle clause.

1

  I felt incredibly nervous as I was accepting the prize. 

Accepting the prize, I felt incredibly nervous.

2

  She fell and broke her wrist while she was running down the stairs. 

3

  I saw him with Anna as I was walking down the road.

4

  I get my best ideas while I am riding my bike. 

5

  They were waiting at the airport when they heard the news 

about the plane crash.

6

  He was looking out of the window and he saw a cat run into 

the road. 

3

Connect the two sentences to make one with a perfect 
participle clause. 

1

  You had an early lunch. You went swimming.

Having had an early lunch, you went swimming.

2

  He felt a bit ill. He had eaten too much chocolate. 

3

  He arrived early for the interview. He got really nervous. 

4

  She passed her exams with good grades. She went to Cardiff 

University.

5

  She had suffered from headaches for a month. She went for a 

check-up at the doctor’s. 

6

  He travelled around the world for a year. He wrote a book about 

his adventures. 

Unit 14

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Cambridge University Press 2008   

Level 4 Unit 14

LEVEL 4 

UNIT 14