What it tests
The same skills as “Choose the answer”, with more focus on structures: relative clauses, conditionals, linking words, verb patterns, agreement.
In the exam: part V, 7 tasks.
Step by step
- Find the gap's role in the sentence (which clause it belongs to).
- Compare the options: are they linking words, verb forms, pronouns?
- Check both sides of the gap: what the word must connect to.
- Use signal words: if, unless, wish, although, despite, so that.
- Read the completed sentence for sense.
Watch out for
- despite / although: despite + noun or -ing, although + clause.
- who / which / that / whose / what — what never follows a noun.
- Conditionals: no will after if in the if-clause.
Example
Most folk songs are ballads ____ have simple words and tell simple stories. a) what b) that c) when d) although
b) that — it begins a relative clause describing “ballads” and is the subject of “have”.