TURN something ON

Mar 2, 2017

Study box. Read these sentences carefully.

1. It’s a bit dark in here. Shall I turn the light on?
2. Can I turn on the television? I want to watch the news.
3. I don’t understand this machine. How do you turn it on?
4. The heating has been turned on, so our offices are nice and warm.
Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Complete this meaning of turn something on using the words below:
  
  electricity • button • start • switch
  
  to the flow of , gas or water by moving a or pressing a
- Which of these are grammatically possible?
  - He turned the TV on.
  - He turned on the TV.
  - He turned it on.
  - He turned on it.
  - The TV was turned on.
- Which sentence is grammatically right?
  - I forgot to turn the answer machine when I left the house this morning.
  - If you want a hot bath later, you’ll have to turning the hot water on now.
  - How can you read in this light? Let me turn on the big light on for you.
  - To turn the power back on, press the standby button.
Complete these sentences in an appropriate way, using a form of ‘turn on’ and an object:
- It’s quite cold in here, isn’t it? We should (heating)
- My computer’s broken. It crashes every time I (it)
- She was bored, driving down the motorway on her own, so she (radio)