Example:

   ______ I’ll marry him all the same.

   a. Were he rich or poor   b. Be he rich or poor

   c. Whether rich or poor   d. Being rich or poor

                                EXERCISE

1.       ______, I must do another experiment.

a. It is ever so late      b. Ever so late it

c. Be it ever so late     d. Whether be it ever so late

2.       The young driver looked over the engine carefully lest it ______ on the way.

a. goes wrong   b. would go wrong  c. went wrong  d. should go wrong

3.       Machines are often oiled so that they ______ well.

a. ran  b. runs   c. should run   d. running

4.       Even if he ______ very busy, he would have kept on learning English.

a. had been   b. was    c. were   d. had being

5.       Supposing the weather ______ bad, where would you go?

a. is   b. will be   c. was   d. were

6.       ______, he could not succeed.

a. However, he tried that    b. He tried however hard

c. However he could try    d. However hard he tried

7.       Even though the enemy ______ wings, they couldn’t escape from our encirclement.

a. had   b. had had  c. have   d. has

8.       She described the accident as if she ______ it herself.

a. saw  b. has seen   c. had seen  d. sees

9.       He came to meet us at the station for fear that we ______ the wrong way.

a. take  b. should take   c. took    d. had taken

10.   The car looked very dirty, as though it ______ hundreds of miles.

a. run  b. runs   c. has run   d. had run

11.   The teacher spoke slowly in order that we ______ no difficulty in following him.

a. should have  b. had   c. will have    d. didn’t have

12.   All magnets behave the same, ______ they large or small.

a. how   b. are   c. be   d. were

13.   At the beginning he didn’t want to speak English lest he  _____ mistakes.

a. will make   b. should make   c. would make   d. can

14.   I remember the whole thing as if it ______ yesterday.

a. happen  b. happens   c. happened  d. happening

15.   She stayed at home for a few days so that she _____ her mother.

a. takes care of   b. took care of   c. might took care of   d. might take care of

16.   She took up the meter with care for fear that it _____ .

a. is damaged   b. to be damaged  c. should be damaged  d. was damaged

17.   In many cases the heating effect is neglected as if there ______ no flow of current along the wire.

a. are   b. were    c. is    d. being

18.   I’ll put the money on the table just in case you ______ it.

a. might need   b. would need   c. needed  d. may have needed

19.   Providing you ______ the opportunity to go abroad, which country would you want to visit first?

a. have   b. will have   c. had    d. have had

20.   The business of each day, ______ selling goods or shipping them, went quite smoothly.

a. it being  b. was it   c. it was   d. be it</P

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