Grammar / B2 Grammar lessons and exercises / ‘There’ and ‘it’: Preparatory subjects
Complete each sentence using **two words**: the correct preparatory subject (**there** or **it**) + the correct verb form (e.g., 'is', 'has been', 'would be', etc.). Do **not** use contractions (e.g., write 'it is', not 'it’s').
fun to stay with you next weekend.
to be a mistake in the answer. This can't be right.
We decided to go home because getting cold.
impossible to play the match, so we cancelled it.
to be a pub in my street, but they closed it down last year.
me who wrote the letter.
have been very difficult to run 20 miles in the desert. You should be proud.
been a lot of speculation over who the next minister will be.
been a long time since I wrote you, but I've been very busy.
not much we can do now.