Linguaskill English Usage Practice — All Questions

Which sentence is correct?

• a.The staff is looking forward the conference.
• b.The staff looks forward the conference.
• c.The staff is looking forward to the conference.✓
• d.The staff looking forward to the conference.

The phrase is 'look forward to' plus a noun, and the sentence needs the auxiliary 'is' with the -ing form. Only 'The staff is looking forward to the conference' has both the correct preposition and a complete verb.

Which sentence uses the correct amount of detail without a double comparative error?

• a.This model is more expensive than the previous one.✓
• b.This model is more expensiver than the previous one.
• c.This model is expensiver than the previous one.
• d.This model is the most expensive than the previous one.

Long adjectives form the comparative with 'more' alone: 'more expensive'. You cannot add '-er' to 'expensive' or combine 'more' with '-er', and 'most ... than' mixes a superlative with a comparative.

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

• a.We have made a good progress this year.
• b.We have made good progress this year.✓
• c.We have made good progresses this year.
• d.We have make good progress this year.

'Progress' is uncountable, so it takes no article 'a' and has no plural form. The present perfect also needs the past participle 'made', so 'We have made good progress' is correct.

Which sentence reports the request correctly?

• a.He suggested me to review the contract.
• b.He suggested me reviewing the contract.
• c.He suggested to review the contract.
• d.He suggested that we review the contract.✓

'Suggest' is not followed by 'someone to do'. A correct pattern is 'suggest that + subject + verb', so 'He suggested that we review the contract' is right.