Business vocabulary exercise: 5 verbs (extend, exclude, expect, expand, exaggerate) – exercise 2
Business English vocabulary exercise, intermediate level
This exercise gives you practice using five verbs:
extend | exclude | expect | expand | exaggerate
Exercise instructions
1. Study the vocabulary, including ‘how to use’ and the example sentences.
2. Fill the gap in each sentence with extend, exclude, expect, expand or exaggerate in its correct form.
extend |
ex.tend |
extend |
| verb | to make something longer, make something last longer | |
| how to use | extend something, a meeting, a deadline, a visa, a contract extend something by a month, a year, etc. |
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| examples | 1. They have extended their one-year guarantee to two years. 2. The immigration authority extended his visa by a month. 3. They have extended my contract. |
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exclude |
ex.clude |
exclude |
| verb | to deliberately not include | |
| how to use | exclude something; exclude someone/something from something exclude from opposite: include |
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| examples | 1. Don’t worry; we haven’t excluded you from our plans. 2. The price excludes tax. 3. New employees were excluded from the meeting. |
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expect |
ex.pect |
expect |
| verb | to think or believe that something will happen |
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| how to use | expect something; expect to do something; expect somebody/something to do something; expect that |
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| examples | 1. I sent them my CV and now I’m expecting the answer. 2. We expected you to come earlier. 3. I expect to be here for a week. |
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expand |
ex.pand |
expand |
| verb | (of a company) to become bigger and more successful | |
| how to use | intransitive verb (the verb has no object) something, a business, a company, a market expands noun: expansion |
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| examples | 1. Our company has expanded rapidly over the last three years. 2. The company plans to expand into China. |
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exaggerate |
ex.agg.er.ate |
exaggerate |
| verb | to say that something is much bigger, better or worse, than it really is | |
| how to use | intransitive verb (the verb has no object) exaggerate transitive verb (the verb has an object) exaggerate something, the truth, a story |
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| examples | 1. Newspapers tend to exaggerate the events they describe. 2. I don’t believe you earn $8000 a month – you’re exaggerating! |
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Fill the gap in each sentence with extend, exclude, expect, expand or exaggerate in its correct form.