Vocabulary: Make, let and allow
For each of the six questions choose the one correct
answer.
1. If we behave badly in class, our teacher
___________ stay late and do extra work.
a. must
b. lets us
c. allows us to
d. makes us
2. My daughter’s school _____________ the children
to wear jeans and T-shirts – notlike in my day!
a. makes
b. lets
c. has to
d. allows
3. I hate school, the teachers make us _________ so
much homework every day!
a. do
b. doing
c. to do
d. did
4. On Friday afternoons our teacher sometimes lets
us _______ home early.
a. go
b. to go
c. going
d. went
5. When I was a boy we were made _________ correct
school uniform at all times!
a. wear
b. to wear
c. wearing
d. wore
6. “Excuse me sir, are we allowed ___________
dictionaries into the exam?”
a. take
b. to take
c. taking
d. took
Make, let and allow - Answers
1.
a. It’s the students who must stay late and do extra
work – not the teacher.
b. If you let someone do something, you allow it or
give permission.
c. If you allow someone to do something, you let
them do something or give
permission.
d. CORRECT. If you make someone do something, you
say ‘you have to do it’;
you give them no choice.
2.
a. If you make someone do something you say they
have to do it, but in this case the
children have permission to do something.
b. The verb ‘let’ means give permission, but it is
followed by a verb without ‘to’: let
someone do something.
c. ‘Has to’ is not correct.
d. If you allow someone to do something, you give
permission – it is followed by
the infinitive: allow someone to do something.
3.
a. Correct. The verb ‘make’ is unusual as it is
followed by ‘do’ without the
infinitive: make someone do something.
4.
a. ‘Let someone do something’ is the correct
sentence pattern.
5.
b. ‘Make someone do something’ is correct, but here
the passive voice is ‘be
made to do something’, using the infinitive.
6.
b. CORRECT. ‘Allow someone to do something’ is the
correct sentence pattern.
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