Question 1
(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)
“_____ I ask the waiter for the bill, darling, when you _____ your coffee?”
To offer to do something or ask for someone's wishes, we use Shall I…?: Shall I open the window? Here the speaker offers to ask for the bill. Not Will I, because in British English Will I…? asks about the future and does not make an offer. Am I going would need to ask, and Ought would need to.
Question 2
“_____ I ask the waiter for the bill, darling, when you _____ your coffee?”
After time words such as when, after and as soon as, we use a present tense for the future, not will. The present perfect have finished shows the coffee will be finished first, and then the bill is requested. will finish and shall finish break this rule, and will have finish is not a correct form.
Question 3
“Yes, I think you _____.
had better (+ bare infinitive) gives advice or says what is the sensible thing to do: You'd better go. In this short answer, you had better means 'you should ask for the bill'. Not would rather, which expresses preference (I'd rather stay) and makes no sense as advice. had rather and would better are not standard.
Question 4
I _____ this film for such a long time that I _____ any of it.”
for such a long time shows an action that started in the past and is still continuing, so we need the present perfect continuous: have been looking forward. In look forward to, to is a preposition, so it is followed by the -ing form: looking forward to seeing. Not have been looking forward to see, because a bare infinitive cannot follow this preposition.
Question 5
I _____ this film for such a long time that I _____ any of it.”
would like is followed by a to-infinitive: I wouldn't like to miss any of it. We cannot say would like that + clause in English, so wouldn't like that we miss/missed is wrong. wouldn't miss changes the meaning to a prediction, not the speaker's wish.
Question 6
“Waiter! The bill, please. Oh dear, I haven’t got my wallet. I _____ it in my other jacket.
must have + past participle expresses a logical deduction about the past: the speaker has no wallet, so he is almost certain he left it in the other jacket. Not should have left, which would mean that leaving it there was the right thing to do. had to leave means it was necessary, and ought have left is missing to.
Question 7
I wish I _____ it before we came out.”
For a regret about the past, we use wish + past perfect: I wish I had checked it before we came out. The clue is before we came out, which refers to the past. Not would have checked, because would is not used after wish with the same subject (I wish I…) to talk about the past.
Question 8
“Good heavens! Now I suppose they’ll make us _____.”
In the active voice, make + object is followed by the bare infinitive (no to): They'll make us wash up. Not to wash up, which is only used in the passive (We were made to wash up). the washing up would need a verb: make us do the washing up.
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