The Grammar Test

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

The Grammar Test

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