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By the time she turned 15 she had begun dancing five nights a week at the Palais.
Old Habits - Adverbs of Frequency
Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Old Habits” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Adverbs of Frequency quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
This 'old habits' quiz tests you on adverbs of frequency.
In what ways have you changed since you were younger - or perhaps, since you have begun learning English? Let's see how confidently you can describe 'old habits' from the past.
English has various ways of doing this, and lots of useful adverbs of frequency and other phrases for putting past happenings and behaviour in context.
1 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
... ... my uncle ... ... home from the rugby with a kit-bag half full of mud.
... ... my uncle ... ... home from the rugby with a kit-bag half full of mud.
Each week ... / ... came ...
Week after week ... / ... would arrive ...
Weekly ... / ... got home ...
Every week ... / ... turned up (on the doorstep) ...
2 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
Each Christmas we ... ... my grandparents'.
Each Christmas we ... ... my grandparents'.
... went staying to ...
... went to stay at ...
... went and stayed with ...
... went for to stay at ...
In English you are more likely to 'go and stay', rather than 'go to stay ...', though some people do use this form.
It will be 'at my grandparents' ' (note the apostrophe: this means 'at the house belonging to them'. That is why the option with 'with' (Answer 3) would not quite work accurately.
It will be 'at my grandparents' ' (note the apostrophe: this means 'at the house belonging to them'. That is why the option with 'with' (Answer 3) would not quite work accurately.
3 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
... ... there ... ... another family disaster.
... ... there ... ... another family disaster.
Each few years ... / ... was ...
Every so often ... / ... seemed to be ...
Ever and again ... / ... would come ...
Now and then ... / ... happened
Answer 1 is somewhat 'bald' and factual; Answer 2 is the mellowest, with a suggestion that the disasters were fairly frequent but perhaps not always as serious as they 'seemed'. Answer 3 is possible but very literary and old-fashioned; Answer 4 is the only really weak option this time.
4 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
On the 'home front' during the Napoleonic Wars, farmers with a sense for the new technology ... ... run several of their indoor operations at once, using a 'barn engine': a steam engine that drove other machinery using a system of belts, and which ... ... money.
On the 'home front' during the Napoleonic Wars, farmers with a sense for the new technology ... ... run several of their indoor operations at once, using a 'barn engine': a steam engine that drove other machinery using a system of belts, and which ... ... money.
... could already ... / ... soon proved itself by saving ...
... became able to ... / ... saved them ...
... were able to ... / ... saved ...
... managed to ... / ... began saving them ...
Answer 1 is the best, though there are good elements in each of the others.
The machinery may have cost the farmers a lot to install, but could be run by far fewer staff, bringing a saving on wages. The Industrial Revolution was already well under-way in Britain two centuries ago; it was in Britain that it first began.
The machinery may have cost the farmers a lot to install, but could be run by far fewer staff, bringing a saving on wages. The Industrial Revolution was already well under-way in Britain two centuries ago; it was in Britain that it first began.
5 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
Our old dog ... ... barking at the postman: ... ... hear him do it, even when we were at the other end of the street on our way to school.
Our old dog ... ... barking at the postman: ... ... hear him do it, even when we were at the other end of the street on our way to school.
... used to like ... / ... we would ...
... was in the habit of ... / ... quite often we would ...
... enjoyed ... / ... people ...
... seemed to have fun ... / ... once in a while, I ...
Answer 2 is the most characterful and accurate way of putting this.
6 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
... ... she ... ... five nights a week at the Palais.
... ... she ... ... five nights a week at the Palais.
At the age of 15 ... / ... danced ...
By the time she turned 15 ... / ... had begun dancing ...
On her 15th birthday ... / ... would be dancing ...
As a 15-year-old ... / ... used to dance ...
Answer 1 is fine, if simple: more suited to the early stages of a biography when 'she' became famous later in her life. The later versions here each catch rather more of the sense of surprise and unusual achievement.
Answer 3 doesn't quite work, because 'she' only has one 15th birthday, and it doesn't make clear sense for her to be doing five nights'-worth of dancing within 24 hours ~ however good, keen, talented, pretty etc. she may already have been.
Answer 4 is fine if unremarkable; it does not carry the same strength of nuance as No.2.
Answer 3 doesn't quite work, because 'she' only has one 15th birthday, and it doesn't make clear sense for her to be doing five nights'-worth of dancing within 24 hours ~ however good, keen, talented, pretty etc. she may already have been.
Answer 4 is fine if unremarkable; it does not carry the same strength of nuance as No.2.
7 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
Before she put the light out, mother ... ... .
Before she put the light out, mother ... ... .
... always read to us a story.
... would always read to us a story.
... would always read us a story.
... would always use to read us a story.
' ... Read us ... ' is simple and standard English; we do not need to use both the 'would' and 'use[d] to' to establish a routine or habit in the past.
8 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
... ... he ... ... relatively modern and powerful computers.
... ... he ... ... relatively modern and powerful computers.
During the 1960s ... / ... built ...
Back in the 1960s ... / ... was already building ...
In the 1960s ... / ... had built ...
Over the 1960s ... / ... used to build ...
Answers 1 & 3 are also quite good, and acceptable language-wise, but No.2 carries the best nuances and turns-of-phrase: 'back in the 60s' subtly but clearly emphasises the time-gap of half a century or so (a very long time indeed in terms of a new field like computer technology), while 'was already building' suggests that he had what we'd call 'a head start' on his competitors, in terms of gaining direct experience and knowing more than they did. This is much the strongest, richest Answer.
9 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
We always used to beg Grandpop to get his model steam railway going in the garden; and ... ... persuade him to do it.
We always used to beg Grandpop to get his model steam railway going in the garden; and ... ... persuade him to do it.
... on the odd occasion, we actually managed to ...
... once in a blue moon, he really ...
... a handful of times, we almost ...
... every so often, we succeeded to...
Any of these starts (up to the comma) would make good idiomatic sense, but only Answer 1 has the second part that fits on properly. You can't 'succeed to do' something in English (Answer 4), though there is another rather similar-sounding usage with an unrelated meaning.
10 .
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English.
When we lived in Scotland I ... ... long country walks (when the weather was good enough!).
When we lived in Scotland I ... ... long country walks (when the weather was good enough!).
... sometimes did ...
... often went ...
... often used to go for ...
...usually went for ...
'Often' emphasises that this was frequent ('usually' suggests almost every day, which may not be so likely); we 'go for' a walk, in English, rather than 'doing' it as in some other languages.
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Your own language may also be good at suggesting context, through use of adverbs and other choices of phrase. If you can build this level of detail into your storytelling in English, even sometimes, that would be splendid.