Present Simple · Exercises

C1Advanced practice

Emphasis and inversion for a more polished style.

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What you’ll practise at C1

He/she/it + -s
Negatives: don’t / doesn’t
Yes/no questions
Frequency adverbs
Wh- questions
Subject questions (Who lives…?)
Question tags
Simple vs. continuous & state verbs
So do I / Neither do I
Timetables and schedules
Time clauses (when, until…)
Emphatic do / does
Inversion (Rarely does she…)

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Sample exercises

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Rewrite the sentence with the adverb in the right place.
Olivia is in the kitchen. (never)
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Olivia is never in the kitchen.
Frequency adverbs go before the main verb (She always walks…) but after be (She is always late).
Rewrite the sentence with emphatic do/does.
The new student goes to the gym.
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The new student does go to the gym.
Add do/does before the base verb to stress that something is true: She does like it!
Write the correct form of the verb.
Text me before Hiro _____ (leave) the office.
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Text me before Hiro leaves the office.
After when, as soon as, until, before and after we use the present simple to talk about the future — not will.
Write the question tag.
We outsource the accounting three times a week, _____?
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We outsource the accounting three times a week, don't we?
Positive sentence → negative tag; negative sentence → positive tag. Repeat the auxiliary (do/does or am/is/are) with a pronoun.
Choose the correct form.
Tell me when the children _____ (come) back.
would come · come · comes · will come
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Tell me when the children come back.
After when, as soon as, until, before and after we use the present simple to talk about the future — not will.
Complete the question.
Who _____ (mentor) young engineers?
mentors · do mentor · does mentor · mentor
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Who mentors young engineers?
When who asks about the subject, don’t use do/does, and the verb takes -s: Who lives here?