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TOEIC-style: Incomplete sentences

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Independent practice in the style of TOEIC incomplete-sentence questions, not an official test: choose the word that completes short workplace sentences.

Grammar in workplace sentences

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

Ms Okafor ___ the sales report every Monday morning.
- a) write
- b) writes
- c) writing
- d) written
Please send the invoice to our office ___ Friday.
- a) by
- b) since
- c) in
- d) at
The new printer is ___ than the old one.
- a) fast
- b) fastest
- c) faster
- d) more fast
Mr Novak is not in the office today, so please call ___ tomorrow.
- a) he
- b) his
- c) himself
- d) him
We ___ a meeting with the designers yesterday afternoon.
- a) have
- b) had
- c) will have
- d) are having
Please read the safety instructions ___ before you use the machine.
- a) carefully
- b) careful
- c) care
- d) careless
The training session ___ at 9:30 tomorrow, so please arrive on time.
- a) start
- b) starting
- c) starts
- d) started
There aren't ___ chairs in the meeting room for everyone.
- a) much
- b) a lot
- c) every
- d) enough

Workplace vocabulary

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

Could you ___ a meeting room for Thursday at 2 p.m.?
- a) book
- b) take
- c) keep
- d) write
If you have any questions, please ___ me on extension 214.
- a) speak
- b) tell
- c) contact
- d) say
Please ___ the attached form and return it by email.
- a) arrive
- b) complete
- c) agree
- d) happen
The ___ for the project is 15 March, so we must finish before then.
- a) timetable
- b) calendar
- c) holiday
- d) deadline
Mr Lee is ___ a business trip and will return on Monday.
- a) in
- b) at
- c) on
- d) by
Our customer service team is ___ from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday.
- a) available
- b) possible
- c) capable
- d) useful
We need to ___ more staff for the busy summer season.
- a) apply
- b) hire
- c) retire
- d) resign
Please keep your ___ after you pay. You need it if you want to return an item.
- a) recipe
- b) reception
- c) receipt
- d) receiver

Answer key

Grammar in workplace sentences

b) writesEvery Monday shows a routine, so we use the present simple. Ms Okafor is he/she, so the verb takes -s.
a) byBy Friday means not later than Friday. We don't use in or at with days.
c) fasterThan tells us we need a comparative. Fast is a short adjective, so it becomes faster.
d) himAfter a verb like call, we use the object pronoun him.
b) hadYesterday afternoon is in the past, so we use the past simple had.
a) carefullyThe word describes how you read, so we need the adverb carefully.
c) startsWe often use the present simple for timetables, even for the future. The session is singular, so starts.
d) enoughEnough means as many as we need. Much is for uncountable nouns, and a lot needs of before a noun.

Workplace vocabulary

a) bookWe book a room, a table or a ticket when we reserve it for a time.
c) contactContact someone means call or write to them. Speak needs to, and tell and say do not fit here.
b) completeComplete a form means write all the information in it.
d) deadlineA deadline is the last day when something must be finished.
c) onWe say on a business trip, like on holiday.
a) availableAvailable means ready and free to help people at those times.
b) hireA company hires people when it gives them a job. Workers apply for jobs; they don't apply staff.
c) receiptA receipt is the paper that shows what you paid. A recipe is for cooking.