Q.1.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. 'You ... ... that my Uncle Oscar and Auntie Fleur ... ... to stay with us the weekend after next, don't you?'
Q.2.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. 'If ever you ... ... my country, make sure you ... ... me again. It would be fun ... ... you over to our place for dinner with the family.'
Q.3.
Time for another song ... This is from a stage-musical of the 1930s called 'Me and My Girl', and famously sung by George Formby with his ukelele: ' ... ... on a lamp-post at the corner of the street In case a certain little lady ... ... by.'
Q.4.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. 'After my accident, I ... ... that route on my way to work in future.'
Q.5.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. ' ... ... into town? I ... ... if you could pick up a small book of first-class stamps for me while ... ... there?'
Q.6.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. ' ... ... the car at all this afternoon, or ... ... it for a couple of hours?'
Q.7.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. 'They have done so well in life that now, they ... ... a large country house with a garden that ... ... a swimming pool and a tennis court.'
Q.8.
Another nonsense-poem (or riddle) in English begins: ' As ... ... to St Ives, I ... ... a man with seven wives (...) '
Q.9.
Pick the best word/s to fill the gap in good clear English. 'All ... well, this time next year she ... ... her exams and ... ... as a doctor in Africa.'
Q.10.
If you're interested in English and some of its best-known literature, you may well know of the 'Alice' books by Lewis Carroll (real name: Charles Lutwidge Dogdson) ~ who was in fact a teacher of mathematics and logic at the University of Oxford, about 150 years ago. The books are full of word-play (like the poem 'Jabberwocky') and logical tricks. At one point there is a poem about 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', which begins: 'The sun ... ... on the sea, Shining with all his might (...) And this ... ... odd, because it was The middle of the night.'