The Grammar Test

In this sentence: "I'd like two coffees, please.", the word coffees is
1. a mass noun made countable
2. an error - it should be 'two cups of coffee'
3. a mass noun
4. uncountable
In this sentence: "They'll have been driving all night.", the tense is
1. future perfect progressive
2. future perfect simple
3. future modal
4. the future with -ing
In this sentence: "I think it's dead easy.", the word dead is
1. an intensifying adverbial
2. an intensifying adjective
3. an adverbial adjective
4. an approximator
In this sentence, "I seldom enjoy his company.", the word seldom is
1. an adverb of time
2. an adverb of manner
3. an adverb of extent
4. an adjective to describe 'enjoy his company'
In this sentence, "Technically, it's called a grommet.", the word technically is
1. a viewpoint adjunct
2. an attitudinal adverb
3. a viewpoint disjunct
4. a conjunction
In this sentence, "He looks exhausted.", the word looks is
1. a copular verb
2. a verb of appearance
3. a verb in the progressive aspect
4. a mental process verb
This sentence, "The hotel was what she enjoyed most." is
1. a reversed wh- cleft
2. a compound sentence
3. a fronted subject
4. an it-cleft
This sentence, "Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure." is
1. a complex sentence
2. a simple sentence
3. a compound-complex sentence
4. a compound sentence
In this sentence, "Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure.", the word although is
1. a subordinating conjunction
2. a coordinating conjunction
3. a correlative conjunction
4. a minor linker
In this sentence, "It was important that he be there.", the word be is
1. the infinitive
2. subjunctive
3. present
4. future
This phrase, "the government's policy" is an example of
1. a possessive genitive
2. a descriptive genitive
3. an origin genitive
4. an objective genitive
In this sentence, "She daren't phone her mother.", the word dare is
1. a semi-modal
2. a lexical verb
3. a pure modal
4. an attitudinal verb
In this sentence, "She needs to phone her mother.", the word need is
1. a modal
2. a semi-modal
3. a lexical verb
4. a demand verb
Prepositions can be described as
1. a closed-system class of function words
2. a set of open-class grammatical words
3. words which join verbs
4. words which say where, when, why and who
In this sentence, "I am loving this.", the word love is
1. a perception verb used dynamically
2. a stative perception verb
3. a gerund
4. a dynamic process verb
This sentence, "At the first meeting, which was held yesterday, the chair invited comments from everyone." contains
1. a defining relative clause
2. a non-defining relative clause
3. a reduced relative clause
4. a relative adverb, 'which'
This sentence, "This is the car he arrived in." contains
1. a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the object
2. a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the subject
3. a non-defining relative clause with omitted relative pronoun
4. a reduced relative clause
In this sentence, "I thought long and hard about not telling you.", the word telling is
1. a gerund
2. a participle
3. a finite verb
4. a future form
In "I gave it to him." we have
1. two direct objects
2. three types of pronoun: nominative, accusative and dative
3. a genitive and an indirect object
4. a tri-transitive verb
This is the last question. Note your score now!
In "The old house with a thatched roof", the words old and thatched are, respectively
1. one gradable and one ungradable adjective
2. one epithet and one classifier
3. two simple adjectives
4. an adverb and an adjective

The Grammar Test

Multiple-choice exercise