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Do your students know more grammar than you do?! This quiz tests your knowledge of grammar, and is designed to help you decide whether the online 'Grammar Foundations course' would be useful for you.
1. VERB FORMS
(a) Tenses
Identify the names of the tenses which are in bold in the following sentences. (If the tenses are in the passive form, include this in your answer). The first one has been done for you
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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? |
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3. She hadn’t written for ages. |
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4. The house was designed to be environmentally friendly. |
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5. We’ll be sunbathing on a beach in Spain next week! |
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6. You’ll have heard about him on the news. |
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7. The drug dealers have been arrested |
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8. I’ve been trying to contact him for several days. |
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9. Are you doing anything tomorrow? |
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10. Are you going to do anything? |
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(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 |
make |
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arrive |
feel |
sing |
play |
(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 |
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do |
can |
enjoy |
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work |
did |
let |
(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. |
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3. If you saw a wolf, would you be afraid? |
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4. If his employees make mistakes, he gets angry. |
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5. Would you have gone to the wedding if you’d had an invitation? |
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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 give her?
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2. He passed the note to his secretary.
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4. It’s the oldest building 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 your coffee with or without sugar? |
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2. They skated along the frozen lake, hand in hand. |
5. I can generally understand when people don’t speak too quickly. |
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3. She taught 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. |
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2. Are you going to the new swimming pool near the park? |
4. I’m sure I locked the door last night. |
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 |
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1.useful |
adjective |
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2.too |
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3.students |
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4.at |
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5.very |
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6.their |
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7.acquisition |
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8.even |
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9.successful |
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10.when |
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11.we |
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12.models |
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13.what |
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(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 |
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present participle |
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past participle |
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full infinitive |
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infinitive without ‘to’ |
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