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Grammar Foundations Quiz – Answer key
1. VERB FORMS
(a) Tenses
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Name of tense |
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1. I went to a movie yesterday |
past simple |
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2. Do you often go onto Facebook? |
present simple |
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3. She hadn’t written for ages. |
past perfect simple |
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4. The house was designed to be environmentally friendly. |
past simple passive |
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5. We’ll be sunbathing on a beach in Spain next week! |
future continuous* |
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6. You’ll have heard about him on the news. |
future perfect simple |
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7. The drug dealers have been arrested |
present perfect simple passive |
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8. I’ve been trying to contact him for several days. |
present perfect continuous |
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9. Are you doing anything tomorrow? |
present continuous |
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10. Are you going to do anything? |
going to’ future |
*an alternative name for ‘continuous’ is ‘progressive’
(b) Regular and irregular verbs
Are the following regular (R) or irregular (I) verbs? The first two have been done for you.
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buy (I) |
work (R) |
see (I) |
make (I) |
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arrive (R) |
feel (I) |
sing (I) |
play (R) |
(c) Auxiliary verbs
Can the following be used as auxiliary verbs? Yes or No? The first two have been done for you:
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are (yes) |
seem (no) |
has (yes) |
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do (yes) |
can (yes) |
enjoy (no) |
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work (no) |
did (yes) |
let (no) |
(d) Conditionals
Decide whether the following sentences are examples of the:
zero conditional, 1st conditional, 2nd conditional or 3rd conditional structures. The first one has been done for you
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1. If you come, I will be happy. |
1st conditional |
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2. If I were you, I wouldn’t buy that bike. |
2nd conditional |
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3. If you saw a wolf, would you be afraid? |
2nd conditional |
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4. If his employees make mistakes, he gets angry. |
zero conditional |
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5. Would you have gone to the wedding if you’d had an invitation? |
3rd conditional |
2. SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION
(a) Identify whether each underlined component is the subject (S), direct object (DO), indirect object (IO) or complement (C) of the sentence.
The first one has been done for you.
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1. The man (S) drove his car (DO) away.
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3. What did you (S) give her (IO) ?
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2. He (S) passed the note (DO) to his secretary. (IO)
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4. It’s the oldest building (C) in the city.
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(b) Identify whether, in the following sentences, the underlined verbs are
transitive (T) or intransitive (IN). The first one has been done for you.
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1. He slept peacefully until morning. (IN) |
4. Do you prefer (T) your coffee with or without sugar? |
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2. They skated (IN) along the frozen lake, hand in hand. |
5. I can generally understand (IN) when people don’t speak too quickly. |
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3. She taught (T) the students every morning. |
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(c) How many clauses do the following sentences contain? 1, 2 or 3? The first one has been done for you.
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1. Could you tell me if this answer is correct? (2) |
3. I’ll ring you if you let me know when you’ll be at home. (3) |
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2. Are you going to the new swimming pool near the park? (1) |
4. I’m sure I locked the door last night. (2) |
3. WORD CLASSES (PARTS OF SPEECH)
(a) In the following context, what is the word class (part of speech) of each of the underlined words or group of words? The first one has been done for you.
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Reading is useful (1) for other purposes too:(2) any exposure to English (provided students (3) understand it more or less) is a good thing for language students. At (4) the very (5) least, some of the language sticks in their(6) minds as part of the process of language acquisition (7), and, if the reading text is especially interesting and engaging, acquisition is likely to be even (8) more successful.(9)
Reading texts also provide good models for English writing. When (10) we (11) teach the skill of writing, we will need to show students models (12) of what (13) we are encouraging them to do. from: How to Teach English by Jeremy Harmer, pub. Longman |
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Word from text |
Word class |
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1.useful |
adjective |
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2.too |
adverb |
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3.students |
noun *countable |
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4.at |
preposition |
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5.very |
adverb |
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6.their |
determiner (possessive adj) |
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7.acquisition |
noun **uncountable |
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8.even |
adverb |
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9.successful |
adjective |
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10.when |
conjunction (sentence adverb) |
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11.we |
pronoun |
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12.models |
noun *countable |
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13.what |
relative pronoun |
(b) Now decide which of the above underlined nouns are *countable and which are **uncountable.
(c) In the following text, find one example of each of the following:
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present simple tense |
present participle |
past participle |
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full infinitive |
infinitive without ‘to’ |
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We have to choose video material according to the level and interests of our students. If we make it too difficult or too easy, the students will not be motivated. If the content is irrelevant to the students’ interest, it may fail to engage them. ...Some teachers...think that, with the visual senses engaged as well as the audio senses, students pay less attention to what they are actually hearing. from: How to Teach English by Jeremy Harmer, pub. Longman |
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present simple tense |
have, make, is, think, pay, are |
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present participle |
hearing |
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past participle |
motivated, engaged |
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full infinitive |
to choose, to engage, |
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infinitive without ‘to’ |
be, fail |
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