English Exercises: Grammar review

1. Complete the following text by choosing the correct word/s next to each number.

I met Tom in the street yesterday and he told me a story that was hard to believe. The trouble is that Tom is 1. never sometimes always telling me about strange things that happen to him. 2. I He It never know whether to believe him. 3. if or why not. This time, as always, he swore that what he 4. related was relating relates was the truth.

He 5. was walking walked walks in the park to his way home from school, when he watched looked saw a lion. A lion! At first he didn't 7. believed believe believing his own eyes, but then he realised that it 8. is were was in the park and he couldn't call for help. As soon 10. that as so the lion saw him, Tom quickly 11. was climbing climbs climbed up the nearest tree. 12. So while then he was waiting up there, the lion kept trying to reach up to him 13. but then so it couldn't. After a while, the lion 14. liked wanted seemed to forget about him, but when Tom started to call for help, 15. the a some heard him and again 16. was trying trying tried to reach Tom. To make matters worse, it 17. got was getting gets darker and darker. Tom was afraid. He didn't 18. wanted wants want to spend the night up a tree with a lion waking below him. 19. Then After At first, about two hours, he heard the sounds of cars and sirens outside the park. It seems that the lion heard them as well 20. and as then started to walk away, towards the sounds. But Tom didn't know this, because by the time it 21. was be did completely dark. So he waited up in the tree all night, not daring to come down till the morning, when he realised that the lion was no longer 22. waited waits waiting. Then he ran out of the park 23. as so but quickly as he could.

That was when he bumped into me and 24. tell was telling told me his story. But I didn't believe him until I saw that morning's newspaper headlines : ' LION 25. IS ESCAPING ESCAPES WAS ESCAPING FROM ZOO. CAUGHT AFTER FOUR HOURS. NOBODY HURTS'